Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Florence Emily Dugdale Hardy, 56, widow of the late Novelist Thomas Hardy; in Dorchester, England. Before she became 74-year-old Novelist Hardy's second wife in 1914, Mrs. Hardy had written five successful children's books...
...Grace Coolidge, widow of the late President of the U. S., contracted for the building of a $25,000, air-conditioned, seven-room house in Northampton, Mass...
...mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given by the widow of Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger (1897-99) to the Grosse Point Memorial Church near Detroit, Willet showed Theodore Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. When he learned that Mrs. Alger did not like Roosevelt, he merely changed Roosevelt's face to Alger...
Collections are being received at the front desk of the Indoor Athletic Building to create a fund to be given to the widow of Frank Munroe, employed at the building, who was killed by an automobile in Maine this summer. The collection is sanctioned...
...Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes to the set where the old Cagney reasserts itself in two brawls, one in the script, the other extemporaneous...