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Word: widowers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substitute, the Speaker Pro Tem. When Clerk Page stopped reading, up came the Representatives' hands to clap as loudly as they could for a slim, smiling little lady in neat black who stepped briskly to the chair-Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, daughter of a cotton miller, widow of a Congressman, Red Cross nurse in the War, thrice-elected Representative of Lowell, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Time | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Evelyn Kinder, as a young widow, does some good dancing and stirs up more than the emotions of Billy McIntyre, the sixteen year old. One of the brightest spots in the cast is provided by Martha Morton and Bobby Jarvis who do some clever tap dancing and sing, among other things, "Button Up Your Overcoat". Other snappy tunes are "I Want To Be Bad", and "My Lucky Star". You'll like "Follow Thru", we wouldn't fool...

Author: By R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

...Widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Woking, Surrey, England, Widow F. E. Stevens, 84, was trundled into St. John's Church in a wheelchair, married to one Cyril Mills, 23, son of an Australian bicyclist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...affectionate regard for Dewey he has for poison ivy and measles. ... If there is any following, Dewey will do it, not she. ... A very charming sensible woman . . . she isn't brilliant but she is clearheaded, understanding, independent, much disposed to do her own political thinking. Being a wealthy widow is no handicap to her. . . . But the days when Dewey had two votes are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dewey & the Widow Pratt | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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