Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble bust of plump, pretty Sabine (aged two),by her father, famed French Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), was bought by Philanthropist Edward S. Harkness and is still owned by his widow...
Holiday Affair (RKO Radio) is an unlikely but likable little romantic comedy adroitly warmed with Christmas sentiment. It confronts a confused young war widow (Janet Leigh), working as a department store comparison shopper in the holiday rush, with a choice of two suitors: a safe & sound lawyer (Wendell Corey) who has wooed her for two years, and a happy-go-lucky toy clerk (Robert Mitchum) who tries to win her in a week...
...main floor includes a splendid dining room, a club meeting room (the library of Professor Cannon's home), Mrs. Leggewie's office, a kitchen, and a pantry. Several pieces of fine old furniture, as well as some rare books, have been donated by a Mrs. Potter, a wealthy Boston widow. Other donations come from members of the faculty and language club funds. The University takes no part in financing the Center...
Another who believed in Scurry's future was Edith McKanna, a handsome, fortyish widow, who began buying up leases iff 1945 when she got out of the armed services. Soon she controlled 86,000 acres, now has seven producing wells. She gives dinners of pheasant and venison in her oil-lamplighted farmhouse, where some of the field's biggest oil deals have been closed. Veteran Oilman C. T. McLaughlin came to Scurry County 15 years ago to get away from the business, struck it rich also. He found that his 5,200-acre Diamond M ranch was right...
...that's exactly how Harvard and Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman planned it. Founded in 1937 by the bequest of Mrs. Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, the fellowships offer working journalists the chance to spend a year at the University attending what courses and lectures they please...