Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of Jimmy's fellow workers heard those words. Jimmy's widow had made it plain she did not want them at the funeral. "If only Jimmy had not bottled it all up inside him," she said. "If only he had answered them back and stood up for himself. That was his failing. He could never stand trouble...
...Unknown Soldier's Widow. Such shoddy shady practices are within the law of many states, as long as some pittance goes to a genuine charity, but the Tompkins-Rabin committee promised, after the first round of witnesses last week, to seek legislation to end the charity rackets. Worried administrators of such legitimate charities as the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the various Community Chests pointed out that their fund-raising and administrative costs rarely exceed 12%. There was widespread fear that worthy causes would suffer financial loss in the exposure of the rackets...
...public, which freely contributes to such hoaxes as the relief fund for "The Unknown Soldier's Widow," showed no signs of tightening its purse strings. U.S. charities of all kinds will receive more than $4 billion this year...
...loving wife, but when her policeman husband tried to leave her, she crushed his skull with the nearest thing at hand: a leg of lamb fresh from the freezer. Without quite knowing it, Mary had committed a perfect crime. Before the commiserating police have finished their investigation at the Widow Maloney's house, the murder weapon has been cooked and eaten...
...paint was hardly dry when a wealthy Des Moines contractor and art collector named James S. Carpenter bought the picture and hauled it off to his Iowa home (the Des Moines Art Center paid his widow $12,000 for it in 1941). When Bellows heard about the purchase, he exclaimed: "Where is the man who bought it? I want to kiss him on both cheeks...