Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said: "In the hospital." The French Republic made itself a party to this story. From the uncomfortable little flat where the nurse had been keeping them on her own savings, the children were driven to a hospital and there for a few hours they saw their mother, Arlette Stavisky. widow of France's most famed swindler, once Chanel's most beautiful model, propped up in bed with her leg in a most realistic bandage. The children could scarcely believe their eyes last week when Maman came home...
...Avowed purpose of the Good-Will Union, founded twelve years ago by Rev. Edward Lawrence Hunt, a onetime Presbyterian minister and "100% American," is ''To form a more perfect union." Widow of a Manhattan realtor, Mrs. Tubman met Widower Hunt four years ago, now collaborates with him in patrioteering. Boast they: "There never is an occasion we don't celebrate...
Engaged Dr. Lewis Perry, 59, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter. N. H.; and Mrs. Juliette E. Hubbell Adams, widow of Vice President Mason Tyler Adams of Seth Thomas Clock Co., sister of Dr. Perry's first wife (died, 1923; in Pittsfield, Mass...
...Louis, Mrs. Nellie B. Stull, marriage broker, founder of the Widow & Widower's Club of America, complaining that business is bad, said: "A man admires the woman who makes him think but he keeps away from her. He likes the woman who makes him laugh. He loves the girl who hurts him. But he marries the woman who flatters him. It was always competition more than love that got men into matrimony. Now with so many women hanging around, flattering them, there isn't any more competition...
...Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself, rich furs and jewels, a private car which she named ''Brünnhilde...