Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was lunch with his wife, Donna Rachele, Son Vittorio, Son Bruno's widow and daughter. Then an hour of chess and strolling through the grounds, not too far from the Nazi Elite Guard or the air-raid shelter hewn from solid rock...
First Lieut. Jere Knight, from Pleasant Valley, Pa., widow of British-born Author Major Eric Knight and considered the handsomest WAC in London, averaged at least two dinner invitations an evening...
Earlier, Yenya's disconsolate widow al most wrecks the plot. Becoming suspicious of Yuranosuke's wily pretense of inactivity, she decides to avenge her hus band herself; but her two attempts to kill Moronao fail. According to the Muenchner Neueste Nachrichten, the knowledge that, had she succeeded, 47 lives would have been saved, represents "a peak of tragic irony." The same newspaper found much else to praise. Especially fetching was Playwright Langenbeck's introduction of "humorous contrast" into his tragic scenes. For example: in the scene where Yuranosuke outlines the plan of vengeance to the Ronin, this...
...David Hempstead tinkered and cut. Miss Rogers said that patchwork was no good. So a new ending was contrived in which Miss Rogers got her bad news, bit her lip, marched off bravely to work. They were wrestling with a third version when a letter came from a war widow who had seen the sneak preview. Miss Rogers, wrote the widow, had put into words exactly what she had felt and been unable to say in all the months since her husband was killed. The first ending stayed...
...Lady Chatterley was discovered last spring by staid Author Esther Forbes (Paul Revere, and The World He Lived In, TIME, June 29, 1942) when she visited Santa Fe Anthropologist William Hougland. Hougland is the unofficial literary agent of Lawrence's widow, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence.* He told Author Forbes about the present draft of Lady Chatterley which had remained in Lawrence's bound notebooks for 18 years...