Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Auld Lang Stein. In Sandridge, England, the widow of Pubkeeper Bert Gudgeon, carrying out his wishes, had a stone beer mug installed on his grave...
...Majority of One (by Leonard Spigelgass). Problem: Can a plump Jewish widow (Gertrude Berg) from Brooklyn find enduring happiness with a rich Buddhist-Shintoist Japanese textile tycoon (Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
...halt, Théas appealed to Pope Pius XII, who put him in touch with energetic, persuasive Monsignor George Roche, onetime parish priest in Poitiers, France, head of a lay order, Opus Cenaculi (work of the cenacle). The group, originally backed by Melvina Rivet, a wealthy Canadian widow in her 80s, had raised millions to build schools and churches in France and Italy...
...investigated a specific minority group, the Italian Americans, and have reached some unshakable conclusions: 1) many of them speak broken English, 2) most of them eat spaghetti, 3) some of them grow up to be gangsters. As a matter of fact, that is what the heroine (Sophia Loren), the widow of a racketeer, is afraid her son will do. The boy is only twelve years old, and already he has been caught tampering with a parking meter and sent off to a work farm. The hero (Anthony Quinn), a well-preserved, middle-aged widower with a small business...
Married. George Sanders, 52, suave Hollywood heavy; and Benita Hume Colman, 52, actress, widow of Actor Ronald Colman; both for the third time (his second was Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor); in Madrid, where he is on location for Solomon and Sheba. Benita is a British subject. Sanders, born of British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, will give up his U.S. citizenship...