Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lamp it was possible to see the bereaved mother sitting in the middle of the assembly holding a small child. She seemed almost in a stupor. All the relatives leaned forward to see what it was all about. When they realized that I, a foreigner, had brought the widow money, a murmur of astonishment escaped them. . . . The money which I gave the mother seemed to daze her still more. When they made her understand that the money was actually hers and all that she was expected to do was to sign a receipt, she simply became wide-eyed. Her signature...
From Russia he sent me my widow's weeds...
From the funeral feast my widow's weeds...
Married. Sarah Branch Jackson Coonley Morgan, daughter of Robert Jackson, onetime secretary of the Democratic National Committee, ex-wife of John Clark Coonley, Boston chain-store magnate, and widow of William Forbes Morgan, onetime Democratic National Treasurer; and Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice president of the Washington Redskins; in Ellicott City...
Warm-hearted Franklin Roosevelt promptly answered Widow Phillips' letter. Out went an executive order: Billy went post-haste to join brother Bobby at Amarillo Field. Henceforth, wherever Billy and Bobby Phillips go, they are under orders from the White House to go together...