Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed from the wreckage, young Widow Kling said sadly: "Today was Rudy's 29th birthday. ... I guess he died the way he would have wanted to. He worked hard running our garage and about the only real fun he had was when he got away from the business with his planes...
...Wenatchee, Wash., Reporter Lynn Leonard signed up subscribers to a fund for the benefit of "the widow of the Unknown Soldier." He had difficulty in persuading several not to force cash upon him at once...
...play, the Maroons-Canadiens clicked. Three swift goals followed, then the closing bell. Winners by a breathless margin, the All-Stars skated off the ice with a 6-to-5 victory. Thus was raised enough money, added to private subscriptions, to make a fund of $23,000 for the widow and three children of Howarth ("Howie") Morenz. speediest forward in hockey history, who died last winter after breaking a leg in a Canadien game. Thus also was opened the 1937-38 hockey season...
...cottage in Mineral Springs, Ark., 66-year-old Widow Annie Kelly was arrested, charged with shooting 68-year-old Alderman J. R. Page, of Nashville, Ark., on her porch after a quarrel. To Mineral Springs to "render any assistance needed" by Widow Kelly, once the wife of a country doctor named J. M. Rivers, Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, her son, sent his younger brother, J. S. Rivers...
Settled. By Mrs. Edward Howland Robinson Green, red-haired widow of the late Hetty Green's son. and Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, his sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her-richest woman...