Word: widower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some thirty years ago, the widow Angeline Philippe looked hard at the small boy who stood beside her. She and her husband had named him Louis. By itself, Louis was perhaps the commonest name in all Paris, but Louis Philippe smacked of kingship. With such a name, a young Parisian should go far. It was unfortunate that she had scarcely enough money to clothe or feed...
...appeared in the first number of The American Caravan, "yearbook of American literature," it was singled out for bold poetic images which justified its existence in poetry rather than prose. Though it is more elaborate and therefore the less effective than Masefield's crystalline novels-in-verse (The Widow in the Bye Street, etc.), its psychological analyses and philosophical comment are nevertheless subordinated to the compelling narrative...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...
...widow of Paul Raditch, mother of seven children, said last week: "I hope my husband will be the last victim of this strife and that Serbia and Croatia will make peace." Her wishes were respected to the comparative extent that only four persons lost their lives in riots which broke out at Zagreb when Stefan Raditch was prematurely reported dying...
Married. William Eugene Johnson, 66, famed blind-in-one-eye anti-saloon rallier; to Mary Bessie Stanley, widow of a deputy-rallier; in Syracuse. Mr. Johnson's first wife was Lillie M. Trevitt, who was William Jennings Bryan's stenographer...