Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever-present sub-plot involves Shirley Temple, a nut-brown coed who later turns out to be a widow with a three-year old child. It's the same old saga of campus love, and falls down badly. Fortunately the focus is always on Clifton Webb, who like Bobby Clark, is a show by himself. His attitude throughout the entire picture can be accurately summed up in the following exchange...
Wright, a resident of Euid, Oklahoma, represented the United States on the Security Council of the Intercollegiate Conference of the United Nations in 1948, and won the Coolidge Prize for Debating. The Knox Fellowship was established by the widow of the wartime Secretary of the Navy to provide for a year's study in any one of the nations of the British Commonwealth...
...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...English instructor, a group of undergraduates developed the idea of school where student's of all nationalities could come together and establish international friendship and understanding. With the sponsorship of the Students Council, they rented an eighteenth century castle, Leopoldskron, outside the Austrian city of Salzburg from the widow of producer Max Rinehardt. They convinced several well-known American teachers of the soundness of their idea, among whom were Professors Wassily Leontief, F. O. Matthiesen, and Benjamin F. Wright of Harvard and Margaret Mead of the American Museum of Natural History...
Lewis died in 1939, Kiimalehto in 1948. Mrs. Kiimalehto, who has not been a practicing Rosicrucian for four years, says that she is not interested in money but in rescuing AMORC from the control of Lewis' son, daughter-in-law and widow. Last week Rosicrucian leaders filed their answer to Widow Kiimalehto's suit: the Kiimalehto-Lewis team, they said, had not been a business partnership. Meanwhile, the checks and money orders continued to roll in from those who yearn to learn about "the system of metaphysical and physical philosophy intended to awaken the latent faculties...