Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the well-to-do residents of Bucharest's smart Parcu Filipescu section had something to talk about. A woman as Foreign Minister of Rumania, the first to serve in such a post anywhere! And such a woman! Although Ana Pauker, mother of three and self-made widow, lived among them in the Parcu district, kept a lakeside villa at Snagov, and rode in the swankest limousines (bullet-proofed), she had but lately "arrived," in a way most ominous for her neighbors...
...Newport, dimming Socialite Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster, 80-year-old widow, adopted Brigadier General Ralph C. Tobin, 57, former commander of New York's old 7th Regiment of the National Guard, as her son. General Tobin, retired, has been living with Mrs. Webster since May, will inherit her personal estate, estimated...
While the Duchess of Kent was away from home, someone got into her rambling Victorian country place (Coppins, in Buckinghamshire), snitched a police whistle that London bobbies had given the pretty widow for use in just such an emergency...
...familiar face of Enrico Caruso, in silver, turned up in the family-circle lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House. In a flurry of bulb-popping, the late great tenor's widow, Mrs. Dorothy Caruso (who had two unhappy marriages after Caruso's death, resumed the name of her devoted "Rico" after each divorce), presented a heroically scowling bust of the tenor, flanked by four full-blown little nymphs, to the Met's General Manager Edward Johnson...
Died. Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, 83, widow of Grover Cleveland, wife of Professor Thomas Jex Preston Jr., retired Princeton archeology professor; in Baltimore. The youngest and one of the prettiest First Ladies (she was 22 when she married the President), she was the only woman ever married to a President in the White House. As New York's governor, and later as President, Cleveland showered her with roses while she was a Wells College student, married her (after months of dewy speculation by the nation's press) a year after her graduation...