Word: widower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although this declaration seemed to promise more stability at Hankow, it was significant that Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the great Doctor, quietly retired to a suburb of Hankow last week and announced that she would withdraw entirely from the political activity there "until better councils prevail...
Died. Mrs, Joseph Pulitzer, 78, widow of the founder of the present New York World; at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife...
...alive. They put away a bottle of Burgundy from which the Last Man should drink a toast to his dead comrades. They decided that in their dining-hall there would be 34 chairs, even when most of those chairs should hold no occupant. And they appointed Mrs. Samuel Bloomer, widow of the Company's color sergeant to be custodian of their battle flag...
Married. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 53, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; to Mlle. Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechterva; in Paris. In 1903 he married Mrs. Evelyn Smith Tome, first woman president of a National Bank,* who died last April (TIME, May 2), widow of Jacob Tome, with whom she founded the Tome Institute (commonly called Tome School), at Port Deposit...
...college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...