Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heirs of the great J. P. Morgan chase a widow around Europe and hunt down theater tickets? See BUSINESS, The Big Banker...
...London auctioneer this week will hawk some love letters written by England's King George IV, most of them quilled to Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a widow six years his senior, who became his morganatic wife. Aside from their slushiness, the romantic epistles are historically interesting in graphically demonstrating the young prince's fickle ways. A few of the letters are addressed to "my own, own, own Isabella," a lady named Pigot, who happened to be Widow Fitz-herbert's companion. Where the salutation is hazy, it is impossible to know which woman young George was wooing...
...lingering doubt as to why the late Philanthropist Vincent Astor cut his half brother, sometime Playboy John Jacob Astor, out of his will was cleared up by Vincent's widow, Brooke Russell Astor. Testifying in an examination preceding the trial in which J. J. will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless...
...Molly Maguire was a fierce-tempered Irish widow and patriot who in the 18403 organized gangs in Ireland to oppose the British overlords, beating and murdering landlords and their agents in protest against oppressive rents...
...banks, a group of utilities that wanted to finance an atomic reactor turned to Morgan; in a few days, the bank set up the plan to do the job. When General Electric asked Morgan Guaranty to buy up the shares of an affiliate abroad, the bank doggedly pursued one widow from city to city all over Europe until she finally sold her shares...