Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed the mansion into a gleaming monument to the gingerbread era in American architecture, filled its spacious, high-ceilinged rooms with rollicking laughter which had not been heard there for decades. The Warren family is self-sufficient. The Governor and his wife (the former Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a widow, whom he married in 1925) have never entertained much. Mrs. Warren explains: "I had five children in six years, and you can't do much entertaining then...
...Austin, Tex., Marian McGregor Payne, 29, announced her candidacy for the State Legislature. She thus became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. Her husband, Lieut. Colonel John Payne, son of a University of Texas professor, was in the first contingent of U.S. flyers to reach the Mediterranean. He was killed a year ago. Cairo's big army airport is named for him. Mrs. Payne, with a four-year-old daughter to support, has already begun studying law. Last week no male Texan appeared ungallant or injudicious enough to contest...
Married. Edith Louise Sylvia Fairbanks, 36, former Lady Ashley and widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; and Edward John, 36, sixth Baron Stanley of Alderley, Lieut. Commander of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; in Boston. It was her third marriage, his second...
...Forces men gave it another sardonic tag, "The Widow-Maker." Student pilots started out joking about it. ended up by scaring themselves. Training-field crashes added to the legend of the ship's habits: she needed "all of Texas" for the takeoff; she came in to land like a cold flatiron ; she stalled like a Model-T Ford running on kerosene. All that and much more...
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...