Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramakrishna himself practiced as a priest. In 1856 he became a priest of Kali, Hinduism's Divine Mother, in a vast new temple at Dakshineswar, on the Ganges, just north of Calcutta. The temple and its 20 acres of gardens had been built by a wealthy fourth-caste widow named Rani Rasmani, and Ramakrishna showed his disregard for caste by serving as priest there. He had no false respect for his patron. One day as Rani Rasmani was listening to his singing in the temple, the young priest abruptly turned and slapped her. He said that while...
...reached stardom on the stage (in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary) when she was 49, reached Hollywood stardom (in Lady jor a Day) when she was 75. Two disclosures followed her death: she was six years older than she said she was; as Mary J. Brown (she was the widow of a onetime police surgeon in New York City) she had drawn some $10,000 in police widow's pension money over the past 22 years...
...direct descendants of Founder Joseph followed his widow Emma into the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (140,000 members) with headquarters at Independence, Mo. They still hotly insist that Joseph had only one wife instead of the 28 claimed for him by Utah Mormons, ask why, if he had five children by Emma, he had none by the other...
...Ballet Theatre was doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used...
Heroine and Marling daughter, Lettice Watson, is the widow of a naval officer killed at Dunkirk. Lettice lives in the Marling stables, which are fitted up with electricity, a drawing room, nurseries. She is courted by three youths: a poet, covered with long hair and conceit; an R.A.F. officer; an Army captain. This wooing is all the plot there...