Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband gave his life for Belgium and King Albert," cried one widow. "I know the Association of Belgian War Veterans has petitioned King Leopold to keep the belga on the gold standard and that people say he will. But can we trust the young King to protect our savings? If only King Albert were alive...
Left. By the late Richard Berry Harrison, "de Lawd" of The Green Pastures (TIME, March 25); an estate of some $20,000; in Chicago. To the intestate actor's ailing widow, Mrs. Gertrude Harrison, Probate Court granted a claim for $2.056. cost of funeral services in Manhattan and Chicago...
...Sheean's descriptions and comments are those on the Kuomintang, and the attempted Communist Revolutions in China between 1927 and 1930. The figure of Borodin looms large as the greatest man, to Sheean's mind, in the whole decade, Lenin excepted. Then there are Mme. Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the Chinese hero, Eugene Chen, and the fiery, red-haired Rayna Prohme, all of whom Sheean knew with varying degrees of intimacy. Their failure to put through the revolution Sheean ascribes to the strength of foreign imperialism, British and American in particular...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
Married. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, 50, explorer, director of the American Museum of Natural History; and Mrs. Wilhelmina Anderson Christmas, pretty young widow of a Manhattan stockbroker; in Manhattan. In 1931 Dr. Andrews was divorced from his first wife, Yvette Borup, whom he married...