Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 97%. The Wafd does not control Egypt for the reason that the country's Premier and its King are puppets imposed and maintained by the British Government which officially maintains that the country is also "The Free and Independent Kingdom of Egypt." For Zaghlul's widow last week all this was too much. In French she cried: "I am boycotting everything British, even the language. We Egyptian women are throwing our moral force and encouragement- and we are ready to give also our physical force, though it is not great-behind the men fighting for the liberty...
...studying a crime of violence. The late Jeff Bowers, hardware clerk, found four years ago mysteriously shot in a Washington store, provided such a case. For if Jeff Bowers committed suicide, that was all there was to it; but if he was killed in the line of duty, Widow Bonnie Bowers had a legal claim for compensation. From Mrs. Bowers' lawyer the Justices learned that there were no recognizable fingerprints on the gun and presumably Jeff Bowers could not have wiped them off after fatally shooting himself; learned that he had loved his wife, had lived carefree and blithe...
Died. Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, 67, widow of Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War; at her villa in the French Maritime Alps. A daughter of the first and last King of Montenegro, she was a sister of Queen Elena of Italy and an aunt of the assassinated Alexander I of Yugoslavia...
Hospitalized was Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip, after falling in her house at Oyster...
...dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested, some sympathy has always attached to the Great Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many a Frenchman her 14 months in prison awaiting trial have seemed unduly severe. She was let out on bail at last (TIME, May 13) but sympathy still enshrouds her. On the advice of Maitre de Moro-Giafferi last week Arlette Stavisky pulled out all the organ stops...