Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation plans were announced by the King who fortnight ago canceled his summer lease on the $350,000 villa on the French Riviera of Actress Maxine Elliott (TIME, Aug. 3). He turned last week to the "Richest British Widow," Lady Yule, whose husband Sir David ("The Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left some $100,000,000 to her and Daughter Gladys. To King Edward, Lady Yule leased her $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin (an Indian name meaning "Fleetfoot...
Since Lytton Strachey published his Queen Victoria 15 years ago, that classic portrait of a just and virtuous monarch, first Empress of India, devoted wife and inconsolable widow, has scarcely been challenged by biographers. Readers might feel that Strachey had not told them all that was to be said about Victoria, but they were likely to be convinced, upon finishing his book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much...
When observed reading the newspaper Suzy (Jean Harlow)* has already attended the Derby, married an Irish airplane mechanic (Franchot Tone), seen him shot by a mysterious veiled lady (Benita Hume). Under the impression that she is a widow, she marries André Charville (Cary Grant), heir to a fine château, whom she meets in a cabaret. Charville turns out to be France's No. 1 ace. He is also a knave who breaks Suzy's heart with his philanderings. Who is the girl Suzy finds him kissing late one evening on a hospital...
Married. Maxine Rickard, 32, widow of Fight Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard; and Thomas Aloysius Gill, 39, Chicago stockbroker; in Chicago...
...dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia for an attack on the British near Fort Stanwix. In the ambush at Oriskany Gilbert was wounded, lost some of his friends, but found when he returned that he had rewon his wife's love. Thereafter the Martins lived in harmony...