Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President had appointments with two distinguished ladies: ¶ Mrs. Joseph Farrington, widow of the Hawaiian Delegate to Congress, called at the White House (see cut) after being sworn in by Speaker Joseph Martin to succeed her husband...
...legendary ruthlessness, was still a man of some honor who was always generous to the poor and considerate of women. After killing a policeman in line of duty, he would often pay for a fine funeral and settle a generous sum on the officer's widow...
Died. Mrs. Idabelle Smith Firestone, 79, widow of Rubber Tycoon Harvey S. Firestone Sr., sometime composer (/f / Could Tell You, In My Garden, opening and closing themes on radio-TV's venerable Voice of Firestone); after long illness; in Akron...
...Must Choose." Mendès-France believed in himself. And last week, in hundreds of letters to newspapers and the government, Frenchmen declared their belief in him. "Your presence gives us comfort," wrote a pensioned widow. "A man who speaks to us with frankness and simplicity, you have restored confidence long lost to us," wrote a retired miller...
Next day a helicopter picked George Argus off the lower slopes. Wood and Viereck had gone to McKinley Park headquarters for the "toughest part" of their ordeal: telling Thayer's widow of her husband's death. She asked that no more lives be risked to recover his body, buried on the avalanche-ridden slope. "He loved mountains, and that's where he'd want to stay," she said...