Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, Calif., Nazzareno Tinti was sentenced to life imprisonment after confessing to the murder of John Pavia. At trial's end Widow Pavia rose from counsel's table to find herself face-to-face with Wife Tinti. ''An eye for an eye," screamed the widow, "a tooth for a tooth." Then abruptly she slumped, sobbing, into the other's arms. 'I am sorry. I am sorry." moaned the wife. Closely embraced, widow and wife wept together...
...preference among the young ladies. They did make news, though, when they selected the music to be played by Meyer Davis and his orchestra for their party. For Papa Roosevelt they picked "Home on the Range." his favorite. For Mama Roosevelt they ordered "The Blue Danube" and "The Merry Widow Waltz" was played in honor of Sister Anna. For themselves & guests they chose "Stars Fell on Alabama," "June in January," "Flirtation Walk," "An Earful of Music," "The Continental," "Stay As Sweet As You Are," "Two Cigarets in the Dark." Meyer Davis on his own initiative provided an original "Harvard Glide...
...little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things to do. At one point she is hoisted to the top of a pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...
Currently exhibited in the U. S. and recommended by most critics are: The Private Life of Don Juan, The President Vanishes, Babbitt, Babes in Toyland, Broadway Bill, Flirtation Walk, The Battle, The Merry Widow, Man of Aran, Our Daily Bread...
...their enforced semicolon, gradually revealing to each other the meaning of their unfinished sentences. Julian was a bachelor, suave, middleaged; John, a talented young artist, was his son, though unaware of the fact. They amused themselves by observing their fellow travellers: a Jewish salesman, a secretarial spinster, an amiable widow, two girl chums, a pair of honeymooners. One by one their travelling disguises were discarded. The spinster, frantically trying to catch a boat at Corunna, because she had never yet failed her egomaniac boss, attempted to walk it, was brought back with sunstroke and a change of heart. The salesman...