Word: wilk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice in Elwood, dropped it on the day War was declared because he had a family hatred of anything Prussian. He became a lieutenant of field artillery, learned to like gunnery, never learned to like army discipline. While he was in training at Camp Knox, Ky., he and Edith Wilk, onetime town librarian of Elwood, were married. Held up by a blizzard, Lieutenant Willkie was two days late for the wedding, turned up with a frozen, bedraggled bridal bouquet. Sweet-faced Edith Wilk carried it to the altar...