Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angelo venture eventually failed and he moved to El Paso, Texas-where, associated with his brother Nathan failure repeated itself-yet (but without Nathan) he tried once more; and one might say "died in the attempt," for the business was going when he passed on. Shortly thereafter his widow and daughter Evelyn (Clarence's sister) departed, still known as Lapowski. Nathan Lapowski's widow and sons still reside in El Paso as Lapowskis. However, and this is interesting: while the Sam Lapowski family resided in El Paso, Clarence Lapowski-Dillon spent a short time there one summer, vacationing...
...captain naturally refuses. He takes no precautions and is naturally rewarded with mutiny. When the mutineers try to make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself. Like all revolutions, the mutiny swings rapidly Left and toward the captain's beautiful widow. At the end of its swing it meets the mate who has gotten a pistol. Ac companied by thunder, lightning, howls and pistol shots, he gets control of ship and sweetheart...
...frosty morning in January 1932 Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, sport-loving widow of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, and her elderly white maid, Mina Buckner, were found hacked to death in their beds on Mrs. Ilsley's estate at Middleburg, Va. Wanted for the murder was George Crawford, Negro chauffeur whom Mrs. Ilsley had discharged on suspicion of stealing her liquor (TIME, May 8). A Virginia Grand Jury indicted Crawford but the police could not find him. Last January he was picked up in Boston on a petty larceny charge...
...transferred there from Atlanta Penitentiary.* The Army keeps only two guards armed to watch over the 38 military prisoners now incarcerated on Alcatraz. Since 1858, when Alcatraz first became a military prison, only one convict has escaped. He dressed himself in mourning garments which he stole from the widow of a prison officer and, pulling a black veil over his face, got himself ferried to the mainland on the quartermaster's boat...
...denounced as a spy, his printshop windows were broken. In the summer of 1798 yellow fever settled on Philadelphia, every paper suspended publication except Benny's and his old enemy Cobbett's. One hot midnight Death came for 29-year-old Benny Bache; an hour later his widow was printing a defiance to his foes, a promise that his paper would...