Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inquirer's distribution, the Guild grimly put pressure on the defectors. Soundtrucks, parked near their homes, blared: "Your neighbor is a scab. He has sold 650 striking co-workers down the river." Pressure of a still grimmer kind was applied to Inquirer Movie Critic Mildred Martin, widow of Newsman Linton Martin. She got one phone call from a man who said: "This is Linton. Come down and see me soon...
...Church - where they dine and talk about theology. It all sounds very dull, and Durtal is not far off the mark when he confides that his book about Gilles de Rais will be "as tedious to read as to write." But Durtal's affair with the seductive Hyacinthe - widow of a manufacturer of chasubles and wife of an au thor of religious biographies - might be enough to put Là-Bas off the public shelves of most libraries. It is she who leads Durtal into the obscene rituals of Satanism, presided over by an unfrocked priest. (Both the weird...
...Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle is fond of all cats, but Siamese cats are his favorites. He explains that they would be dark all over except for a mutated gene...
Still stern to the memory of his onetime commander, General Charles de Gaulle refused a request from the widow of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, wavering head of the fascist puppet Vichy government during World War II, asking that her husband's remains, now on the lonely Ile d'Yeu, be transferred to a graveyard at Verdun, site of his great 1916 defensive victory over the Germans...
...children of the plain the most miserable were the widow Dufresne (Jo Van Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...