Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonfils Berryman, last week won the right to a full legacy and to her husband. The Bonfils will bequeathed her, $12,000 a year so long as she remained married to flashy Clyde V. Berryman, whom "Bon" disliked and resented; $25,000 a year if she became a widow or divorcee. A judge found that provision contrary to public policy, granted Mrs. Berryman an annuity like her sister's, with no strings...
Married. Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), 22, cinemactress, widow of MGM's Associate Producer Paul Bern Levy who last year spectacularly died by his own hand (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932); and Harold G. Rosson, cameraman; in Yuma, Ariz...
Excited book-boomers have compared this unusual biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
...Carrie M. Smith, widow of Dr. Bugene H. Smith, onetime dean of the Harvard Dental School, established a $10,000 trust fund in memory of her husband $30,000 was left by Annie B. M. Smith of Boston...
...Blue Widow (by Marianne Brown Waters, produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert) is a repetitive comedy about a strumpet who can narrow and widen her eyes. Situation: into a country-houseful of friendly weekenders is insinuated a deceased playwright's baby-faced mistress, representing herself as a grief-shattered widow (Queenie Smith). Plot: she drills unremittingly into the head of every man visible that he is a big strong man, she a little weak woman. Thus she gets proposals of various kinds from a bachelor, a married man too much in love with his busy literary wife...