Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hans Schweiger explained his position last week: "My farm will yield 6,000 marks this year, from which I'll have to deduct 500 for taxes, 500 for the blacksmith, and 1,000 for seed and fertilizer. That leaves me 4,000. A pair of shoes for my wife costs me 800. I consider myself lucky when some city fellow brings me a few nails or machinery to trade in for bread and potatoes." Said Farmer Friedrich Sticht grimly: "Before the farmers starve, every single city dweller will starve first...
...girl jumped out, took one look at her smashed grill and headlights, and shrieked at the round little driver of the Buick. He was a stupid lout, cried she, and he probably sold his wife's virtue. His answer was two brief words: both meant that she was in his opinion a woman of the streets. The girl got her car into gear, backed it out, drove ahead of the Buick and then went into reverse. There was a horrible crunch, but she had aimed badly. Now her Oldsmobile had a big hole in the trunk; the Buick...
...years. In Ontario House files are dossiers on some 125,000 applicants who have signed up to go to Ontario; about 30 hopefuls a day are still coming in. Just last week, 35-year-old William Dent, a tailor who is tired of tailoring, and his 33-year-old wife applied. Said Dent: "We hear they want farm laborers out there and we thought it would be a wonderful chance for us. We don't expect anything like you see in the movies. We just want a home and enough to live on in pleasant surroundings." Added Mrs. Dent...
Jolson is grey-haired now, and looks more like a double-breasted businessman than the skinny, blackface comedian that the U.S. remembers. The Jolson Story was obviously having a happy ending. Said Old Hoofer Jolson (whose fourth wife is 24): "If there weren't such a thing as years nobody would think I'm old. I may not be alive in ten seconds, but I feel better than I have in 20 years...
...soldier, but quit when Swiss troops burned a convent in which the enemy had taken refuge. He became a judge, but quit again when he saw an innocent poor man, accused by a rich man, convicted. He became a peasant, working his farm to support his wife and ten children. But again, the call of God was too strong. He left his family and retired to a ravine, where for 20 years, it is said, he ate only the Sacrament and drank nothing...