Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Libby Holman, torch-singing widow of Tobacco Heir (Camels) Zachary Smith Reynolds, was managing to keep expenses down to her prewar level, according to a guardians' report filed in Baltimore. It showed that last year's maintenance of son Christopher, 12, had cost the singer a routine...
Military Objective. In Dunn, N.C., the Dispatch received an ad: "Young soldier with four and a half years of duty would like to meet a young widow with three children. Object: 85 points...
Horatio's hero is always a prince in disguise, playing the part of a fiddler, a bootblack, a hired boy, but with at tractive, cheerful and resolute features under the dirt. His mother, always a widow, is tormented by the village squire, who plays the joint role of Penelope's suitors. The hero meets a stranger and rescues his child from drowning (or from a mad dog or a runaway horse). The stranger turns out to be a rich merchant, who gives the boy new clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest...
Blessed in the memory of many newspapermen is the late Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the Milwaukee Journal's onetime publisher. She left a million dollars to Harvard, with which the university, in 1938, set up a fund to give selected newsmen time off for study at Harvard...
Died. Margot Asquith, 81, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, witty widow of British Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...