Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...
...Eastman to say: "Lenin would probably get well if he had a pretty girl!" In Paris, Poet McKay joined the expatriate throngs, caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay's next stop, he liked everything except the French authorities, who asked him to leave...
...Podestá Guido Pesenti sat Respighi's plump, 43-year-old widow. Donna Elsa could scarcely see the stage for tears. When the performance ended, the audience roared its thanks to her, knowing that she had finished her husband's last work when he had to lay it down...
...Standing, 63, versatile British actor; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He commanded a destroyer in the War, was knighted for service with the British War Mission to the U. S. in 1918. A talented pianist and marine artist, he had not been well since a Black Widow spider bit him during the filming of Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
...With his widow present in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, last week the first posthumous presentation of the gold medal for ''Distinguished Services to Advertising" was made to Alfred William Erickson. Until his death at 60 last November, "Eric" Erickson was chairman of the board, McCann-Erickson Inc., advertising agency; chairman of the board, Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., floor coverings; chairman of the executive committee, Technicolor, Inc.; member of the executive committee, Bon Ami Co. Leaving acknowledgments to her dead husband's partner, Henry K. McCann, Mrs. Erickson heard him praised as: the father of the commission basis...