Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week at the White House a mixed group sat down to dinner with President & Mrs. Roosevelt. They included Presidential Widow Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Gene Tunney, Tobaccoman & Mrs. S. Clay Williams, Mrs. Roosevelt's friend Nancy Cook, Tax Expert Roswell Magill just appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Wallstreeter Earle Bailie who might have had Mr. Magill's job three years ago if the Senate would have ratified his appointment. But if Franklin Roosevelt was inwardly amused at his guest list, it was not these guests who entertained him. He must have chuckled to himself...
Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged...
...Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped as a sailor. Six years of the sea and the army whipped him into a tough physical specimen...
...Ambassador to France and originally hailed with Communist huzzahs because his onetime wife was the widow of Comrade John Reed (the much esteemed...
...blazed up. But he had no money, had to support himself by teaching a heavy schedule at Rubinstein's Moscow Conservatory. At 37 he had become a composer but he was still just a music-teacher. When Rubinstein went to 45-year-old Nadejda von Meek, music-loving widow of a railroad tycoon and Moscow's richest woman, to get her to do something for Tchaikovsky, he started more than he intended...