Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garish Acapulco the lavishly jeweled American widow and her elderly lawyer friend were steered everywhere by a handsome Mexican-American travel agent. Young Luis Fenton was a great find. His office was right in their hotel, Las Hamacas. Wealthy Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy...
...drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they are. And the film ends with the doctor deciding to resume practice and the lovers rushing into one another's arms. This fairly complex tale is told clearly and movingly. Gerard Philippe plays the bum with a wonderful...
...from his rich, crude, stupid New York brother. The brother, accompanied by his warmhearted wife, immediately flies down, immediately flares up-the first of many times-for laughs. His wife expostulates with him, sighs over the boy and wants to take him home with her; she finds a nice widow for the father. The father ditches a blonde for the widow, but at the end he is still unattached, the boy still gallantly at his side...
...make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said more soberly that it was "a very long...
...design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came tumbling down, 18th century man sought a theological explanation. When...