Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parable of Jesus concerning the importunate widow and the unrighteous judge is quoted by opponents of the twelve-hour day in the steel mills as illustrating the dealings between the churches and Judge Gary...
...gentle art of "cramming" knowledge into the heads of dull and backward students was developed to a high degree by the "Widow" Nolen. . . . He flourished largely because he was able to do what so many instructors could not do--present the substance of a course in an orderly and systematic manner. Tutoring is an old custom, and there will always be laggards or dullards who will turn to tutors for assistance. But if the dull and backward profit from a "boiled down", presentation of a subject, does it not follow that the brighter students would do likewise? As a matter...
...Widow Cagle, moonshiner's relict, hated Yankees and Yankee laws. The War was a Yankee war? she couldn't see why her only son, newly married, should go off and fight in it?fight in this queer place, France, that she thought of as a few miles away from Asheville. But he goes?and is killed. So far, the tragedy is moving, individual and complete. And then comes an act of creaky melodrama?the son of old Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business...
...almost fatal to his widow's rights. She later brought an action under the so-called Wrongful Death Statute, and, having no remedy at common law, was forced to show that she came within the provisions of the Statute. It gave a widow the right to sue only if " no suit for damages be brought by the party injured during his or her life," and it was argued that a suit having been brought a day before the husband's death, his widow was barred. But the court held that the husband's suit must have been...
Died. Mrs. Thomas E. Watson, widow of the late Senator from Georgia, at Thompson, Ga. She was the first woman ever offered an appointment in the Senate...