Word: widowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comic lines are relieving, and Spring Byington, the casual widow at whose country home the meeting takes place, is the grace note in a play where everyone else has something on his of her mind. But even with the uniformly excellent acting. "When Ladies Meet" by little more than good entertainment...
...examination period revives the old suspicion that in drawing up an examination, the professor frequently makes every effort to pick out such questions, and phrase them in such a way, as to thwart every effort of the Widow to spot exam questions. The result has been that at times the examination develops into a keen battle of wits between the Widow on one hand, and the professor on the other. With two such old and experienced antagonists in the fray, the student, and especially one direct from preparatory school, stands little chance of making any kind of a showing...
...should sometimes adopt the procedure he does. He believes that by so doing he prevents those who have gone to the tutoring bureaus from getting a good grade in the course. But the evil connected with the system is that if he has delivered a killing blow to the Widow's patrons, he may at the same fell swoop, have hurt those average students who have been steadily working during the term...
...Wilmington last week, Lawyer Alfred Holman, father of Libby Holman Reynolds, issued a statement which said: '"Mrs. Reynolds has offered to relinquish her child's right to the inheritance as far as she is legally able and her own share as a widow save a comparatively modest sum in each case . . . hoping the remainder may be devoted to public uses through an endowment established in her late husband's and his father's memory...
...will, made in New York, valid? If so, how far would it operate against the claims of his widow and his posthumous...