Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid ! Will you allow your women to be raped by Moors !" The women themselves were similarly exhorted by Communist Deputy Doña Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri, who pleaded: "Women of Madrid ! Do not hinder your husbands from going to War. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
...rich woman. Sarah P. Duke, widow of power-tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Duke, evidently was not greatly worried, for her will, probated last week, showed that she still felt able to leave a fat slice of her fortune to Education (see p. 54). The high cost of death taxes last week caused the anxious heirs of the late Harold...
...Galeazzo, Vatican City engineer and representative of the Knights of Columbus in Rome; that the Cardinal wished no elaborate welcome in Manhattan; that his headquarters during his stay would be the great and peaceful Long Island estate of a great Catholic lady, Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, devout and gracious widow of the Manhattan utilities tycoon who left her $9,700,000 at his death six years...
...Manhattan court last week, still another $1,500,000 rippled into the duchy's coffers, from the estate of Benjamin's widow, Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, who died last month (TIME, Sept. 14). Dukes still to be heard from were "Buck's" widow, Nanaline Holt Duke, and his rich and beauteous daughter, Doris Duke Cromwell...
...task likely to strain the patience of readers not half her years. For Gregrannie's daughter, Linda, has borne ten children at the beginning of Great Laughter, and these, with their wives and offspring, make up the cast of the book. One dies, leaving a widow, Carmella, who is beloved by two of the brothers. She bears a son to one of these, Chauncey, who, however, marries the half-witted niece of a political boss to advance his career. (The other, John, marries an Australian girl.) Another grandson fails in his attempt to run a farm; another marries, begins...