Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week angry Archbishop Jachym returned to battle with a public petition and a threat. Titled "On Behalf of Those Suffering Pangs of Conscience," the petition asked: "Shall the widow because she draws a pension of several hundrad schillings ... be obliged to forgo the primitive right of marrying again?" If the state refuses to act, wrote the Archbishop, "the bishops [will be] obliged to ... order the proper priest to perform the marriage in open contravention...
Died. Sybella Margaretha Krige Smuts, 83, widow of South Africa's famed soldier-statesman, Jan Christian Smuts (who died in 1950); of heart attack; near Pretoria, South Africa...
...four housewives were indeed something special-perhaps even formidable. They were Mrs. Theodore S. Chapman of Jerseyville, Ill., a widow, a successful farm operator and president-elect...
...seems safe enough until the Preacher comes to Cresap's Landing. In no time he woos and wins the widow Harper. John shows an animal distrust for this strange new father with the letters L-O-V-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and H-A-T-E on the left. Once the war of nerves is joined, Author Grubb piles horror on tension, chapter by chapter, till the Preacher meets an end as vicious as himself...
...Second Thought. In East Paterson, N.J., the Shopper carried this ad: FOR RENT WIDOW WOULD LIKE TO SHARE APARTMENT WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, MIDDLEAGED. OR GENTLEMAN WITH REFERENCES...