Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Widow (20th Century-Fox), based on a whodunit by Patrick Quentin, is really just a routine man hunt through Manhattan. However, Scripter-Director-Producer Nunnally Johnson takes the opportunity to give the customers some uptown lowdown, and he dishes it out with chill skill...
LEOPARDS AND LILIES, by Alfred Duggan (278 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), finds a veteran historical novelist taking the field for the English against France in the time of bad King John. Lady Margaret fitzGerold, a highborn widow, is forced into an unwelcome marriage with Sir Falkes de Brealte, a Norman bastard and the best crossbowman in all England. Margaret, a practical woman of 14, runs Falkes's castle, appreciates his long absences from home, and is only mildly annoyed when he scolds her for lowering the drawbridge too slowly. Lady Margaret survives the harrowing siege of Bedford...
...number, in case of unforeseen accident. "That won't be necessary," the patient's wife told the nurse. "My husband will be coming home very soon." But Rudloff was persistent. "One never knows," he said darkly. A day or two later, when the patient suddenly died, his widow demanded an autopsy. A lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in the corpse. Confronted, Nurse Rudloff confessed to killing all four patients, just to discredit the chief surgeon. From East Germany last week came word that Rudloff the resentful nurse had been sentenced to death by guillotine...
...British rulers banned it more than a century ago, educated Hindus deplore it, and law forbids it. But suttee, a widow's ritual suicide upon her husband's funeral pyre, still takes place occasionally in modern India, for the final test of wifely purity sends a shiver of admiration through the devout...
...cattleman come to his office to settle on a figure. To each, Harrell offered a mutually acceptable price for every cow or steer lost, signed and handed over each check personally. One rancher filed a claim for 1,500 head, walked out with a check for $57,000. A widow, whose herd had been wiped out, got enough for a new herd...