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Word: widowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

...Stairs broke down once 14 years ago," Jimmy relates. "But they're O.K. now." One fight above the partly open area of the bell tower stands the widow's walk, strewn with dead pigeons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winder Loves Clock, Pinup Beauties | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...body up in a trunk, carted it to a rented house in suburban Queens, and buried her in cement in the basement. A few days later they turned up in Grand Rapids, Mich., and after suitable preliminaries, moved in with a new prospect-a pretty, 31-year-old widow named Deliphene Downing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Martha | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...night she announced that she knew a medicine which would induce an abortion, smilingly gave Deliphene a handful of sleeping pills. When the pretty widow passed out, Martha directed Ray to do something about her. Ray got a .45-cal. pistol and shot her in the head. They dug a hole in the basement, dumped her in, and cemented up her grave. Deliphene's baby cried noisily and refused to be comforted. Two days later Martha took her into the basement too, and held her head in a tub of water until she died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Martha | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...body was dug up and stripped of its uniform, which was sprinkled with gasoline and burned. Then the body was dusted with salt, wrapped in a white sheet and gently reburied. Relatives announced that this was the only means of breaking a "hex" which he had cast on his widow, 22-year-old Mrs. Rosella Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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