Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...socialite, a grass widow, and the Iowa harnessmaker's son, a widower, got on famously. A few nights later they were dining together at a little restaurant on East 51st Street. They talked again about war work; they also began talking about themselves. They went together to see Katharine Cornell play Candida, to a party at the W. Averell Harrimans. By the time they were invited to a quiet dinner given by Lord and Lady Halifax for the departing Winston Churchill, they had decided to be married. The engagement was one of the secrets Winston Churchill -first person...
...Church of the Heavenly Rest; of charges that he had exerted "undue influence" on 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Paton, who left him 30% of her $1,300,000 (which shrank to about $800,000). Her relatives, who had charged that the pastor had wooed the 230-lb. widow out of the money, said they would appeal...
...Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...
Died. Henry Parish, 82, vice president of the Bank of New York, family friend of the Franklin D. Roosevelts; of a heart ailment; in Llewellyn Park, N.J. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married in his Manhattan house. His widow, Susan Ludlow Parish, is Eleanor Roosevelt's second cousin and godmother...
...year-old rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest, and relatives of the late, 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Patton, who last year left the minister 30% of her $1,300,000. The relatives charged that Dr. Darlington had made love to the widow for ten years to get the money; Dr. Darlington's attorneys described the relationship as pure mother-&-son. Twenty-eight affectionate letters were introduced. One of them: "Dear Anna: Lots of love. Off to Paris tonight. Harry." Excerpt from another from Harry: "Everything is so mixed up. But where there...