Word: widower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STORE OF LADIES-Louis Golding -Knopf ($2.50). Bulls, despite the talk, do not frequent china shops. But boxers do, sometimes, invade polite society. Wordy but facile Author Golding is here engaged, and most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with...
Lines to a Lady in a Widow...
...Live on 24 Hours a Day. I believe that the dear Mr. Nolan, a very shrewd man, would use the idea if he were alive today. Backward students could be lulled to knowledge while they reclined peacefully on their Davenports after a night of ribald revelry. Or the good Widow might have made Trilbys of them and sent them to the examination in a somnambulistic trance stocked with formulas, epitomes and anthologies...
Married. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne (killed in wreck of naval dirigible Shenandoah, Sept. 3, 1925); to one John Caswell Jr., cotton man; in Washington...
Died. Mrs. Therese Förster Herbert, 65, onetime famed opera singer, widow of Composer Victor Herbert; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...