Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President imposed his fifth, sixth and seventh vetoes on bills: 1) to grant an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
Left. By Writer Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner: a net estate valued at $192,927.63; to his widow, Mrs. Ellis Abbott Lardner...
...Martin, Edinburgh's leading painter, to copy canvases. When he was 21. Henry Raeburn painted his first portrait, of George Chalmers of Pittencrieff. seated against a conventional curtain with ruins out the window. The chair was badly out of line. When he was 22 he painted Anns Edgar, widow of Count Leslie, and twelve years his senior. They were married within a month...
...contempt until one day he skinned his father on the price of a scowload of dung from Staten Island. William Henry more than doubled his inheritance, left $200,000,000 to be divided between his two sons, Cornelius and William Kissam. Last week when the will of Cornelius' widow, Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, was probated, liveliest news was that she had left her residuary estate to her onetime estranged second son, Brigadier General Cornelius III. His father had cut him off with a paltry $1,000,000 when he married Grace Wilson, daughter of a hard driving, onetime Tennessee...
...genuine advance in the teaching of these subjects would result were the student allowed to take text books or at least formula cards into the exam room. Mathematical subjects are not mastered overnight at the Widow's and these aids would prove a mental convenience rather than an intellectual crutch; and furthermore their use would enable the harassed student to spend the fleeting hours before finals in a more profitable pursuit of knowledge...