Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Worth Bingham, onetime lawyer, from over the mountains in North Carolina, had never been inside a newspaper office until he bought the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times in 1918. Year before his wife, who had been the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler, died and left him $5.000,000. Last year President Roosevelt made Publisher Bingham U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and proud indeed was Kentucky to receive this finest feather of diplomatic patronage. Last week, Ambassador Bingham was feeling thoroughly at home in London and thinking he was being a credit...
...Regent, Admiral Horthy, were responsible for smashing Emperor Karl's pitiful attempt to come back in 1921. Last week Archduke Otto remained safely in his mouldy castle in a wood near Brussels, refused ail interviews. His mother, the Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss...
Hearing lectures and sermons in "signs" and watching choristers "sign" their hymns in unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia...
...York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization ceremony. Then in reply to thrice-repeated petitions the Holy Father pronounced: "Decernimus et definimus. . , . We decree and define that Blessed Louise de Marillac, widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later...
...announced and have received the official vote of the City Council. A final approval of the plan will come through the Metropolitan Park Commission which expects to consider the question next summer after the embankment being built on the south side of the basin by Mrs. Helen Osborne Storrow, widow of the late Mr. Storrow, is completed...