Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cecil Blount DeMille was born in Ashfield, Mass, in 1881. His father was Henry-Churchill DeMille, who collaborated on plays with the late David Belasco. When Henry DeMille died, his widow first turned her home into a girls' school, sent young Cecil to Pennsylvania Military College. his older brother William to Columbia. Later she founded the DeMille Play Com pany, originally formed to supply the in creasing demand for DeMille-Belasco plays, which did a flourishing agent's business for 20 years. Young Cecil studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, set out to be an actor. After...
...their first flush of sympathy for the buxom young widow of murdered Chancellor Dollfuss, the new Austrian Government gave her a pension, understood to be for life. Last week Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, devout, severe and thrifty, let Austrians know that if the Widow Dollfuss marries again her pension stops...
Enthusiastic Georgians last week were predicting that the money would be raised, the Harris monument erected in time for his bedridden 81-year-old widow to see it. Sure to see it were Joel Harris' children: Mrs. Edwin Camp, wife of the Atlanta Journal's sports writer "Old Timer"; Joel Jr., president of Atlanta's Rotary Club; Lucien, in the insurance business; Evelyn, public relations counsel for Southern Bell Telephone Co.; and Julian, advertising manager of the Atlanta Constitution...
Clutching her children the Chancellor's widow drove home with the Dictator's wife and there she explained as best she could to Rudolf...
Birthdays. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th U. S. President, 73; Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy, 68; King Haakon of Norway, 62; General Hugh Samuel Johnson...