Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musical, which takes place in "Purple Hills," deals with the difficulties of the struggling thespians. Nicholas Benton '50 will portray a stage-struck widow, and Wayne A. Clark '52 will portray her playwright son who tangles with the stock company. Edward L. Bullard '50 will play the widow's lover...
...wasn't. Everybody knew about "the Veep and the Widow." Introducing Barkley at a Washington dinner last summer, Attorney General McGrath called him "the Squire of Paducah and the New Spirit of St. Louis." In September, asked by newsmen about marriage rumors, Barkley replied: "In any such eventuality, I will be chasing you to tell you." Two days later, he added: "I have no way of knowing whether I'll make the grade." The newsmen gathered in Mrs. Hadley's apartment in St. Louis' West End knew that he had. Said Barkley: "Our courtship has undergone...
Alben Barkley, 71, has been a widower since 1947, when his wife died after 44 years of marriage and several years of illness. Mrs. Hadley, a trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...
Born of a very poor family in 1874, Curley's first home was near the city hospital, in the mud-flats of South Boston. It was an environment of native Irishmen, hod-carriers and widow-scrubwomen; a savage place where you had to be tough to be honest and cunning to be dishonest. Curley, at the outset of his career, fell in the middle. He was a politician, and therefore cunning, almost from the beginning, but in contrast to the previous ward leaders he demanded that his constituents get something for their vote. Eventually, after numerous intermediate positions of ward...
...plot itself is simple, unpretentious, and harmless. Gary Cooper is a Navy flyer who takes part in the first carrier-landing experiments, marries a buddy's widow, and is exiled to a desk in the Canal Zone after pleading aviation's case too violently at a Washington reception. Eventually he gets back on a carrier, and he is on the spot at Pearl Harbor when the shooting starts...