Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoes, puts on his tefillin (phylacteries-leather arm bands used in prayer) and tkalis (prayer shawl). Then he squats on the floor and in the candlelit synagogue chants the Lamentations of Jeremiah ("How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, how is she become tributary...
...26th as its president by announcing her retirement. Mills's alarmed trustees prevailed on her to stay at least until 1943-A native San Franciscan (her father sailed around the Horn and her mother arrived from Ohio on horseback), Mrs. Reinhardt took over Mills as a young widow with two small boys, raised it from a dowdy finishing school to a western Vassar. Its students run their own affairs, are allowed to stay out until 2:30 a.m. and are Stanford men's favorite dates. Mrs. Reinhardt, whom they fondly call "Pres" to her cheerful face...
...councillor of the lowest rank of the peerage (John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies). is therefore a "Lady," but not a "Right Honorable." Nor can she call herself "Lady Elizabeth," nor "Elizabeth, Lady," titles proper only to the daughter of an earl or better or the widowed mother of a baron or married baronet, or the widow of a knight...
Raiding the home of Mrs. Kathleen Brugha, detectives found Parachutist Marschner. He had been hiding there since March, when the I.R.A. helped him to escape from Mountjoy Prison. They did not arrest Mrs. Brugha, widow of General Cathal Brugha, onetime De Valera defense minister who died a hero's death in 1922. But they did arrest Mrs. Brugha's pretty daughter, Noinin. And they picked up enough evidence on McGuinness to put him away for seven years...
...late Sir Abe Bailey, South African sportsman and gold mine tycoon: an estate valued at more than $2,000,000. His will leaves a quarter of it in trust "for the advancement, strengthening and development of the South African people," a $40,000 yearly income for his widow, and $400 each to Winston Churchill, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Marquess of Londonderry, and Horse Trainer Reginald...