Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most prominent citizens got into serious trouble. Brigadier General Henry H. Denhardt, strapping 60-year-old War veteran distinguished for valor, was co-publisher of the Bowling Green Times-Journal, had been an able lieutenant-governor of the State. Divorced in 1933, he courted a comely widow named Verna Garr Taylor. One night Mrs. Taylor was found shot to death on a dark road, with the general and his automobile nearby. The pistol which had killed her was the general's and the coroner found traces of gunpowder on his hands. Nevertheless, General Denhardt claimed that Mrs. Taylor...
...story thrusts Bette Davis, as the widow of a slain gangster, into a topsy-turvy milieu, in which she becomes secretary to a whimsical and unhappily married lawyer (Ian Hunter) and the one-night bride of a thoroughbred weakling (Henry Fonda). His uncompromising father forces an annulment, the young man goes obediently abroad to marry another (Anita Louise), unaware that he is leaving an unborn son behind him. On this star-crossed situation there follow several slow-footed years, distinguished in the film by bright directorial fillips and badly managed transitions, while the Furies mobilize for the unreasonable onslaught that...
...Widow...
Edna Bandler is the white-haired intense-eyed widow of a rich diamond merchant. Until two years ago she lived in a mansion, full of gilt and marble, which John D. Rockefeller built years ago in West 54th Street for his son John D. Jr. She now dwells, and conducts prophetic services for a small band of followers in a lushly-furnished duplex studio in West 57th Street, a neighborhood in which nourish many swamis and faith-healers...
...alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes and braved what he felt sure was a colony of Black Widow spiders in the basement. He discovered in old barrels and stacks no less than 2,000 prints and drawings which had never been cataloged...