Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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August Simolke was never one for dramatics. He was 67, tall, skinny, bald and unassuming. He had been married for 44 years, had fathered 11 children. He worked in a Chicago baby furniture factory, and was a good provider for his worried-looking 62-year-old wife, Jennie. Nevertheless, last summer, August Simolke did quite a dramatic thing-after a quarrel with his foreman, he walked off his job and vanished...
...burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...
...Paris, Marjolin often works a 14-hour day before getting home to his wife and two children in Neuilly. Mme. Marjolin is a U.S. girl from West Virginia, the former Dorothy Smith...
...summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being "enemies of democracy." He refused. He was told that if he remained intransigent, he would be imprisoned. When he finally told his wife, she came to Berlin to learn if she and her husband could escape to the West...
...speak into the microphone, Frederik said that his children were "as charming as anyone else's" but also could be very noisy on occasion, "so that sometimes you feel you could strangle them." He then presented the radio reporter to Queen Ingrid, whom he called his "dream wife." He referred to the Princesses as the "ungerne," the kids...