Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Widow Sadie Monssen, 50, had not been forgotten by other agencies of her Government. From the Veterans' Administration she has been getting a $30-a-month widow's pension. From WPA her daughter has had $24 a week relief pay. From HOLC she received a notice that her home in Brooklyn would be foreclosed because she could not raise more than $35 of the $65.56 due monthly on her loans and owed $967 back interest...
Last week a woman named Marie Petitjean Becker, a 58-year-old widow with crisp bangs, a broad mouth and glutinous eyes, sat in a Liége courtroom testifying that she had always been virtuous, romantic, if anything, too tender. Speaking in a husky, flat tone, she gave no indication of the nervousness she had ample reason to feel...
...said of cancer-leaving a thriving lumberyard. She quickly ran the business into the ground, looked around for a new husband to support her. One M. Costadot. who was unfortunately a married man, struck her fancy. One evening, as they chatted pleasantly about a film they had just seen. Widow Becker brewed tea for Mme Costadot. She died...
...Widower Costadot lived with Widow Becker for a year, but could never make up his mind to marry her. When he turned her out she was hard up for cash, so she arranged to sell to a M. Guichner a dressmaking business, in which she had dabbled, for 10,000 francs. She did not tell him it had failed for 400,000 francs. When he objected, she brewed tea. He survived...
...Shortly afterwards. Widow Becker became acquainted with one Lambert Beyer, who, since he had both money and poor health, was most attractive to her. She became his nurse, cared for him (and for the 40,000 francs in securities which he habitually kept in his apartment) with great tenderness. He died...