Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naivete about this caricature that would make Nixon endearing if he weren't already so incredibly appalling. One moment he's attempting to ingratiate himself with Chairman Mao by telling a few Japanese jokes, the next he's justifying his Vietnam policy by citing the example of a war widow and flag-saluting son and saying, "I only do it to humor these people." Later, he's complaining to his psychiatrist that he and Pat have never shared "the pleasures of the flesh"--"But what about your two daughters?" the psychiatrist asks incredulously--Off, they don't do it either...
...Another widow, Mrs. Florence B. Bigelow, 70, whose fortune was estimated at $100,000, engaged Wright to draw up her will in 1965, when she was suffering from diabetes and failing eyesight. According to the attorney general, Mrs. Bigelow had a friend read her the will. She was unpleasantly surprised to find that Wright would get a share of the estate as executor. In addition, his wife Robyn was to inherit 25 shares of IBM stock, valued then at $10,250. Mrs. Bigelow promptly acquired a new attorney and a new will, and the Wrights got nothing when she died...
...June 6, 1969, after numerous cobalt treatments for throat cancer, Mrs. Dunlap S. Garceau, widow of an inventor of medical instruments, died. Her will, drawn up by Wright and executed eight days before her death, bequeathed 200 shares of Standard Oil (N.J.), then worth $15,500, to Wright's wife; the Garceau house, land and personal possessions to Wright's mother; $25,000 each to Wright's two adolescent daughters; and $35,000 cash to Wright's wife "to be used by her in her sole discretion for library purposes and for the arts...
Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor. Who should pop in but the divorced head of the moving firm? Figure out what happens when the lonely twain meet...
Sara Delano Roosevelt was a rich, idle, unintelligent widow who worshipped her son. Aged 50 when Eleanor and Franklin married, she had 35 years of relentless meddling left in her. It was she who bought the couple's houses (near or adjoining hers), furnished them with her own dreadful taste, staffed them with cadres of servants. When the six children began arriving, she contested Eleanor over every matter of upbringing. Franklin Jr. once recalled: "Granny referred to us as 'my children,' adding, 'Your mother only bore...