Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operetta-goers, the word for the Balkans had been "romantic'': in Marsovia, the Merry Widow's imaginary country, the people waltzed in boots and dainty slippers, drank plum brandy and intrigued their way through ballrooms and bedrooms. To diplomats, the word had been "obscure": ephemeral dynasties, parvenu politicians and illiterate courtesans played at running governments. To newspaper readers, the word was "confusing": barely pronounceable, barely distinguishable lands constantly seemed to be staging wars, revolutions and political assassinations for reasons too involved for correspondents to explain...
Last week, at Pillar of Fire's thousand-acre colony in New Jersey (named Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained Elijah), Alma White's son carried on. Handsome, scholarly Arthur K. White, also a bishop, said that this summer he might propose a candidate for Pillar of Fire's No. 2 bishopric...
Singing to Shrimp. Before she could make the big time, Jo needed glamorizing. Thyroid pills and strict dieting cut her down to 135 pounds in six months. ("No matter how much grass you eat, those hot rolls and butter are what you miss.") To give her a widow's-peak hairline, a hairdresser yanked out chunks of her hair. The rest of her hair, which was once brown, was dyed...
Next day loyal Matsuzakayans closed their stalls for a half day's mourning, gathered to elect their dead leader's attractive widow, Yoshiko, as "Matsuzakaya the Sixth." In her flower-banked office, the first woman gang chieftain in Tokyo history planned a memorial service that promised to be "the biggest thing the tekiyas have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with...
...1860s, the film is a fairly literal transcription of Margaret Landon's 1944 best-selling biography. Anna (Irene Dunne) is a purposeful widow, handsome in her crinolines, who arrives in Siam clutching her young son by the hand. Having firmly decided against marrying again, she is taking a job as schoolmarm in the gaudy, uncivilized court of King Mongkut (Rex Harrison). The King's domestic arrangements are already pretty well set, what with his hundreds of wives and concubines and an estimated 67 children. There is never a hint of romance between Anna and her difficult new boss...