Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frau Dollfuss, the widow of the murdered Chancellor, while loyal French friends kept saying she had escaped northward to Czechoslovakia under the personal escort of the French Minister, actually escaped southward to Hungary, reached Budapest in safety...
...famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father, but he tries...
...Congress was beginning to hand out Civil War pensions. It gave one to the widow of the Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
...friends," had passed the House unanimously. Most agreed that Mrs. Harrison could use it. All agreed that she deserved it, for sundry reasons. Among them: 1) she had lived in the White House two years nursing her ailing Aunt Lavinia, the first Mrs. Harrison; 2) as a Presidential widow she has been a the expense of attending various functions, notably the Republican National Convention of 1936; 3) the Government pensions the widows of war veterans who married long after their period of service. In Manhattan where she lives in a small swank Fifth Avenue apartment with one maid, Mary Lord...
Three undergraduates were brought from Cambridge under subpoenae to testify for the defence; only one reached the witness stand. From William and Mary came Dr. Miller, section man in Philosophy B in 1928, when forty identical "critical" book reviews were traced to a seminar conducted at the "Widow," likewise to testify...