Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press was full of apologies because its purported picture of Mrs. Carl A. Weiss Jr., widow of Long's assassin, was really a picture of Miss Helen Bell of New Orleans...
Only woman in the Soviet Union who gives Joseph Stalin a piece of her mind when she feels like it is spunky old Nadezhda Krupskaya, the Widow of Lenin. Several years ago she vexed the Dictator by demanding that Soviet schools be opened to every Russian child, even the moppets of onetime Tsarists, priests, capitalists and kulaks. According to a popular Soviet jest about Stalin, he roared: "Tell that old woman that if she doesn't shut up and mind her business, I'll appoint a new Widow of Lenin...
Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
Wife & War. Dr. Carrel has determined, he declares in Man, the Unknown; that women should not make excessive sexual demands upon men of genius. He waited until he was 40 before he married Anne de la Motte de la Mairie, widow of the Marquis de la Mairie-a large, handsome woman...
Died. "Mrs. Wilson Woodrow" (Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow), 50 plus, novelist and magazine fictionist, widow of James Wilson Woodrow, distant kin of Woodrow Wilson; of heart disease; in Manhattan...