Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murals and ceiling. Somebody contributed a new crystal chandelier. Last year Denverites trooped into the opera house for the first festival: a revival of oldtime Camllle, played by woebegone Lillian Gish staged by Designer Robert Edmond Jones (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Last week the play was The Merry Widow with Austrian Composer Franz Lehar's nostalgic score.* Most of last week's socialite audience came in period costume, the women in Floradora dresses, the men in early 20th Century costume. To prepare their setting for a fancy dress ball they had taken over Central City's Teller...
...again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried to take an innocent-looking but impossible jump in the hunting field. Stephen did not bother to warn him, let him break his neck instead. Then Stephen quietly suppressed...
...well blow your heads off!" cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded $75,000,000, arranged to pay ransom as soon as contact was established with the kidnappers...
Grandpa Storr is the central figure of The Stranger's Return. A hard-fibred, eloquent curmudgeon of nearly 90, he entertains himself by abusing the pasty-faced riff-raff of his family-a nephew's widow, a stepdaughter, her husband-who are his pensioners at Storrhaven while they wait for him to die. When Louise (Miriam Hopkins), the daughter of Grandpa Storr's oldest son, arrives at Storrhaven, the old man gets a new interest in life-showing her that she belongs, not in New York where she has been married and divorced, but on the ancestral...
...Oliver Cromwell Grinnell, prosperous lithographer of Bay Shore, L. I., introduced broadbill fishing to the East, where heretofore the tuna was the largest game fish sought. Month ago his strapping widow hooked a 450-lb. broadbill south of Fire Island at 9 a. m. one day. Ten hours later Mrs. Grinnell was still fighting her fish, her hook fouled firmly in its skull. The captain of her boat, Wally Baker, made her turn over the rod to him. fearing the prolonged struggle would seriously injure her. At 5 a. m. next day he finally managed to gaff the brute...