Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that one of its new destroyers will be christened U.S.S. Monssen...
...four pastel bathrooms and two auxiliary lavatories in her new house at Northampton, Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, widow of the 30th President, picked out the very latest in streamlined water closets, ivory finish and requiring no outside vents. They had been installed, when Plumbing Inspector Carl Eddy ordered them all disconnected for violating the ordinance...
Mildly irritating at times even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...
...whining customers' man, who, coached by his coldblooded, canny wife, worms his way into the bank, plays the Black Widow that finally gobbles up the overconfident Bertillon...
...Burchell Grocery, Washington, D. C., was founded in 1856. Mrs. Lincoln bought groceries there, and the store has been sending orders 'round to the White House ever since. The present proprietress is Mrs. Norvall Burchell, widow of the founder's son. She is proud of the store's historical role, rather sensitive, however, about current profits & losses. For Burchell's closes this week-due, Mrs. Burchell says, to chain store competition, not loss of Presidential patronage...