Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second or so later he was lying on the street, bleeding from five bullet wounds. He died on the way to Harlan Hospital. Sizemore and Jackson were politely arrested by the state police, jailed, and released last week on $15,000 bail; though Metcalfe's wife cried that she had seen them shoot her husband, they produced witnesses who vowed they were chatting indoors when the shooting occurred, Harlan County did not think things would go hard with them. Although killings in Harlan County (pop. 75,000) average 40 a year, only four men have been executed for murder...
Last week, when the returns were in, the committee found that 1949's "Miss Quonset Point" was Mrs. Eva Clausen, who sweeps up in the huge Overhaul and Repair shop. Mrs. Clauson is 43, the wife of a disabled World War I veteran, mother of five children, and plain. But every worker in the 0. & R. shop knows Eva. She listens to their troubles, smiles at their jokes. Bluejackets and civilian workmen call her "Olive Oyl." And some 500 of them voted...
...committee made a last-minute attempt to have Captain Smith change his mind. He refused. He also expressed a desire to "kick in the head" the Providence reporter who had written a story about Mrs. Clauson. When the grand march came, Captain Smith escorted his wife to lead the march. Nobody was crowned "Miss Quonset Point...
Over the years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...
Later, he and his wife moved to Teaneck, N.J., and then to a Manhattan apartment on 97th Street just off Riverside Drive. Their friends, who dropped in for informal Sunday-night literary sessions, included Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Captain George (now Sir Hubert) Wilkins, Poets Constance Lindsay Skinner, Sara Teasdale, Horace Gregory; literary critic-to-be Lewis Gannett; Author and Geographer Earl Parker Hanson; Latin celebrities like the painter Zuloaga and famed Bullfighter Juan Belmonte...