Word: widowers
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...Perhaps his most humorous story concerns Robert Clarke, “a young and promising Civilian in Kashmir.” The strapping young man became romantically involved with Mrs. George Howard, the widow of the chaplain from the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment. Clarke’s problems, however, stem from his relationship with Mrs. Howard’s daughter who was “decidedly big for her age and very good looking...
...home. “I can see it happening even since I’ve lived here. Two of my friends have gotten shot, there have been stabbings. When I was six or seven, I could play outside when it was dark.”Ligia Pirugro, a widow with six grown children who has lived in the apartments since their inception, also mourns the changes to what were once sparkling new models of low-income redevelopment.“Later it was beautiful people. Now, so-so,” she says. Pirugo, not a native English speaker, means...
...House of Bernarda Alba.”Presented as a joint venture by the Undergraduate Council, the Ann Radcliffe Trust, and the Office for the Arts with producer Kim Chen ’08 and director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, this story of a proud widow who attempts to keep her household from shame by oppressing her five rebellious daughters suggests sexual frustration and a deep disillusionment with men. These themes collide forcefully with the claustrophobia of small-town life in Spain at the turn of the century. Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and running...
Greenwich police chief James Walters told reporters the day after the body was discovered that investigators had interviewed Hayley Kissel and that she had been cooperative. The widow spoke only through her attorney. "She right now is focused on her children and trying to help them cope with the loss of their father," says lawyer Joseph Martini. According to Martini, Kissel's father asked his son's widow to stay away from Andrew's funeral. "She plans to make other arrangements so that her children can say goodbye to their father," he says...
Leon Levy—a well-known Wall Street investor who died in 2003—and his widow Shelby White started the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at Harvard in 1997 to support research on terminated and unpublished field work from sites in Greece, Turkey, Cyrpus, Iran, and the Middle East...