Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...botanist, physical chemist and mathematician to get their heads together. He gives some one absolute charge of every enterprise, however, and holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter, who is Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Frederick Hudson Ecker (Metropolitan Life) and Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Actually Dr. Crocker and Trustee-Business Manager Fred Pope, onetime Thompson employe, submit an annual budget which the board passes without too hard study...
...sufficient to hold up an overemphasized character. The scenes all take place within the hospital, and are of a much wider range than one would imagine. There are shysters, big shot gangsters, unfortunate policemen, handsome doctors, ugly, bad doctors, pretty, good nurses, and beautiful, bad nurses, a wealthy widow who merely thinks she's ill, and newspaper reporters who know just exactly how to talk to the information nurse...
...jail "Rats' " widow wrote as follows to her chauffeur and an obliging English warder passed the note: "Please write and let me know how 'Rats' is getting along. God bless you, my love...
...Hongkong, police raided the sideshow of Tin Tsoi, woman ventriloquist, who charged three cents (Hongkong) to let customers talk with her unborn child. They found Widow Tin Tsoi telling patrons that the child had often, during the ten years of her pregnancy, refused to come into the world, inviting them to ask it questions. She was sentenced to six weeks in jail...
Died. Sharifa Huzayma, 50, Queen Mother of Irak, cousin and widow of its late King Feisal. mother of its present King Ghazi I; in Bagdad...