Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineer's Widow...
...free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration in Vienna but Naziphobia among Frenchmen was rapidly bettering "Emperor" Otto's chances. Empress Zita. who never misses a trick, was among the first to send open condolences to bereaved Widow Dollfuss: "As a fellow sufferer with you and your children...
Bill Bullitt was also born & bred a Philadelphia socialite of the bluest. But today he is famed as the only envoy in Moscow whom Bolsheviks consider practically one of themselves. His second wife was the widow of famed U.S. Communist John Reed who lies buried in the Kremlin wall. Two months ago he persuaded the Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches...
Jimmie Rodgers' death, however, did not put an end to the sale of his records. His widow still gets about $200 per month in royalties. His plaintive voice still yodeled last week from honkytonks in Port-au-Prince, cantinas in Colon, dives in Sidney. Lately Jimmie Rodgers' name was given additional immortality. Compañia Vinícola Hispano Americano of Panama City put a Jimmie Rodgers rum on the market...
...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...