Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dempsey, a youthful 59, briefly wooed a wealthy widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. Last week the ex-champ popped up in Miami Beach for a vacation with a new friend: Estelle Allardale, a pretty Californian from Beverly Hills and owner of a woman's-wear shop. Mindful of Jack's old weakness, his friends agreed that they could already hear wedding bells...
Died. Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, 81, widow of the financier and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, mother-in-law of Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh, poet (Quatrains for My Daughter, Hostage, Saint of the Lost-the last two prompted by the 1932 kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby), first (1939-40) woman president of Smith College; after long illness; in Englewood...
...Pals. In Taipei, Formosa, hoping to get rich on stamps, Chao Chun, 31, placed a newspaper ad reading, "Attractive widow of 25, high-school graduate, seeks husband; send photo, personal history and stamps for reply," got 5,000 bids, was finally turned over to police when disgruntled suitors came around to see why they were receiving no replies...
...University had Manter Hall, no longer under the commendable direction of its founder, William ("The Widow") Nolen '87, and the University Tutors legally enjoined from selling lecture notes, the property of the University by common law. A Student Council investigation followed, condemning the activities of the tutoring schools...
...race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus 20: 21; Deuteronomy 25:5)." Knowledge Is Virtue. An unswerving atheist, Russell is convinced that all faiths do harm." He defines faith as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence." The code...