Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The romance of Henry Earlforward, middle-aged bookseller of Riceyman Steps, Clerkenwell, and of Violet Arb, well-to-do widow, past 40 who had recently inherited the confectioner's shop across the way, was an odd but happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife...
Nearly 10,000 volumes belonging to the collection of rare books of the late William Whiting Nolen, the "Widow" of Little Hall, were placed on exhibition in the galleries of William K. MacKay Company, Inc., at 7 Bosworth Street, Boston, on Saturday afternoon. The books will remain on display today and tomorrow. They will then be offered for sale at public auction on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, and on Thursday and Friday evenings...
...first paragraph is Untermyer; the second, Steuer; the third, Buzfuz. Fortunately, in this case no matter how innocent either party may be, he will not go to jail like the poor Mr. Pickwick, found with his buxom landlady, widow Bardell, in his arms...
Engaged. Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, 30, widow of Enrico Caruso, to Captain G. R. Ingram, " wealthy Scotsman." He gave her swimming lessons last Summer at the Lido, Italy...
...Sidney Porter, the widow of Sidney Potter, better known as O. Henry, the master short story writer, told a friend recently of her visit to Sir James Barrie in London. The author of "Peter Pan" had always been interested in O. Henry, and when he learned that Mrs. Porter was in London, he invited her to tea in his historic old home which looks out upon the Thames. Barrie was eager to talk of the American author. He had often wanted to come to the United States to meet O. Henry but could never make up his mind to take...