Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Beatrice Wasserman Buchalter, 40, nightclubbing widow of Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, gangster, and labor racketeer executed last year for a Murder, Inc. slaying; and Arthur Jarwood, 37, onetime Manhattan nightclub proprietor; she for the third time, he for the second; in St. Petersburg...
...story : the impoverished and wolfish Duke of Bristol (Clive Brook), his impoverished and meek friend Richard (Ro land Culver), a statuesque American pickle heiress (Googie Withers) enamored of the Duke, and a heartless, sporty widow named Mrs. Wislack (Beatrice Lillie) abandon London's high life for the widow's island shooting lodge in Scotland. Mrs. Wislack's shocking intention is to take cringing Richard for a month "on approval" before she decides whether to make an honest and rich...
...course of a few weeks' rustication, the pickle heiress realizes what a monument of selfishness the Duke is, and gets over her love for him. Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do. And all four, neck-deep in subplot and mutual deception, spend a rambunctiously funny night dreaming about each other (the principals as living statues in slow, then fast motion...
...write history disguised as fiction, not fiction disguised as history. My Mr. Milton, allowing for Marie Powell's natural bias against the man who defrauded her mother of her "widow's thirds," is precisely the later renegade Milton-not the earlier orthodox Milton of the Minor Poems-who takes shape as one ploughs through the enormous mass of contemporary evidence provided by his Latin and English works, and by the more scholarly modern studies of his life and times...
There, this week, General Ivan Chernyakhovsky died of a battle wound. The Russian "soldier's soldier," he was often at the front, taking risks no Allied Army commander is supposed to take. Moscow ordered a hero's funeral at Vilna, a grant and annuities to his widow and two children, a monument to honor a twice-named Hero of the Soviet Union...