Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie's longtime steelmaking partner, died in 1919, he left his great art collection, his impressive Manhattan home and one of the few private lawns on Fifth Avenue to his widow for her lifetime, with the provision that thereafter it should become a public museum. The Widow Frick has been dead since 1931 and the Frick Museum is not yet ready for the public...
Last week President Roosevelt fired a broadside of facts & figures to confound the "widow-&-orphan" argument. Releasing a special survey made by the Federal Power Commission, he pointed out that the six biggest New York life insurance companies had placed only 9% of their assets in utility securities, that 15 other insurance companies averaged less than 10%, that New York State savings banks averaged less than 3%. Furthermore, the utility bonds of 51 big insurance companies showed an aggregate increase in value since 1929 of $109,000,000. Adding that prime utility operating bonds were now selling at the highest...
Backstage in a Chicago theatre, Blue-singer Sophie Tucker, famed as "the last of the red hot mamas," munched a coffee cake and announced that at the age of 47 she had "adopted a grandma," one Blanche Roper, 74-year-old widow of Plainfield, Ill. Said Granddaughter Tucker: "Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have been adopting orphans. Well, I thought I'd go them one better...
...Marshall innovations were trivial. He persuaded fashionable young matrons of the capital to work for the Times. Betsy Caswell, widow of the Shenandoah's Commander Lansdowne, did the cooking page; beauteous Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis reported politics; plump Nina Carter Tabb covered the hunts of the swank Middleburg and Warrentown set. Hugely successful, their columns helped budge the Times' circulation up to 106,800, only 6,300 less than the venerable Washington Star...
Black and swollen, one morning, was the right little finger of Cinemactor Warner Baxter. By noon his right hand and arm were throbbing painfully. They, too, were black and swollen before a doctor determined that a Black Widow spider had bitten Baxter while he slept...