Word: widowhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widows between the ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant they passed out "ten bob" (10 shillings...
...framework for their pleasantries is inconsequential. Mrs. Cheyney is suddenly discovered in society after a somewhat mysterious widowhood in far Australia. Two eligible lords promptly propose marriage, and are somewhat nonplused to find that she is a pearl-thief masked by a shrewd overlay of charm and manner. She repents in time, of course, to select the more attractive of her noble suitors...
...socks, fur overcoats, diamond rings, roses. But Elisha Lee was lonely, both as animal and artist. He wanted a white woman to love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted to a frowsy lodging house and dyed her hair...