Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several kettles (with "my formula of 10 Ibs. of caustic soda, alum and resin") and boiled them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
...country place on the plushy north shore of Long Island.* The main diggings (in old Woodbury): a Georgian brick pile with a nice third floor for servants, a five-car garage, landscaped grounds. Neighbors: Wall Streeter Henry Rogers Winthrop and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Landlady: Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, widow of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury...
Married. Captain the Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone, 28, first cousin of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, former aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India; and the Hon. Jean Frances Gibbs, 26, Princess Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting, widow of a captain killed at Nijmegen in 1944; he for the first time, she for the second; in London. The royal family attended the wedding en masse, Princess Elizabeth as a bridesmaid...
Died. Eva Roberts Cromwell Stotesbury, 81, old-school grande dame, whose parties (often more than 300 guests) paced Palm Beach society for more than two decades, widow of Philadelphia Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, doting mother of politically ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell; of coronary thrombosis; in Palm Beach...
...would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...