Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success, he avows, is not due entirely to Harvard. "It's more that I'm a full-time servant to the public. I look out for the little fellows' rights. And they vote for me." The mayor explained that when a retired old widow calls him and want to know where her social security check is, he sends his red Mercury station wagon after her, drives her down to the appropriate bureau, and straightens the matter out. Then he drives her back home. "You know, after that she'll vote...
...Historians disagree whether the boy in question was Lincoln's eldest son Bob or his youngest, Tad, but all four Lincoln sons had received a private emancipation proclamation from the man they called "Pa." His attitude was: "Let the children have a good time." Biographer Randall (Mary Lincoln), widow of the late Lincoln scholar J. G. Randall, brings a mother-hen style to her bundle of anecdotes that will wholly please only devoted parents and memorabilia collectors, but the book does light up Lincoln as father, and what it means to grow up in the shadow of a great...
...radio career, i.e., picking her own boy friend and would-be husband. The man she thinks she loves is Hari Sahni, a fellow announcer with a neat little Clark Gable mustache. But Mama Chakravarty, like Mama Morgenstern, has no intention of letting her daughter marry a no-good. A widow, she marches Amrita straight off to stern old grandpa for a verbal rattanning: "I have enquired into the young man's family. The result was not satisfactory...
...When widowed Vice President Alben W. Berkley took handsome Widow Jane Hadley as his wife six years ago, two 14-year-old youngsters became moonstruck, were photographed passing up the wedding luncheon delicacies. Instead, they devoured each other with shy lamb eyes...
Died. Pauline Morton Davis, 67, widow of Dwight Davis (Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge and tennis' Davis Cup donor), founder (1929) of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, first woman member (1924) of the Republican National Committee; after long illness; in Washington...