Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night & Day. Eight months after Lieut. Colonel Lord O'Neill died leading a regiment in Italy, his widow became Lady Rothermere. Now Fleet Street generally agrees that the Daily Mail is being run by two boards of directors-the official daytime board at Northcliffe House and an advisory nighttime board at the Dorchester. Politicians consider the Dorchester directorate important enough to court...
...approved Russian fashion, Critic Zaslavsky called Critic Luce a Fascist and "Goebbels' unconsoled political widow." He added: "This lady does not like us. Furthermore she hates us with a passion which is more African than American in violence...
Colonel Hobby's successor was 43-year-old Colonel Westray Battle Boyce, widow and onetime government worker, who started in the WACs two years ago, served as a supply sergeant, rose rapidly through the ranks to staff director of WACs in the North African theater and finally director on the Washington staff of Oveta Hobby...
Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's 56-year-old widow, now at the Terni internment camp under British protection, confessed that she wanted to bring up her children in the U.S. and might make some money lecturing: "We should have gone to America when we first got married. We planned to do it. . . . But then Mussolini changed his mind...
Last May, at a Church of England convocation, the assembled bishops deliberated for half a day, eventually decided to approve ten new categories of in-law marriages. With Church of England blessing, a Briton may now marry his deceased wife's sister, his brother's widow, his father's brother's widow, his brother's son's widow, his wife's brother's daughter, his wife's father's sister...