Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edges of the rock severed the rope as the weight of the falling body strained it. At any rate the body of the luckless climber was found when the two who were left descended. So these moving pictures are being shown to various audiences for the benefit of the widow and children of the lost guide. The Mountaineering Club is not charging admission to the pictures and welcomes all members of the Union as well as members of the Mountaineering Club and their guests...
...Nash, "millionaire Omaha grandmother," octogenarian widow of the late President Nash of the American Smelting & Mining Co., had been campaigning for Smith throughout Nebraska all summer. Four days before election she entrained for Manhattan to be Governor Smith's guest and "get the full benefit of that thrill" on Election Day. Near Elgin, Ill., her traveling companion looked into Mrs. Nash's berth, found her dead. A sticklesome legal question arose: could Mrs. Nash's absentee vote be counted...
Above the microphone hung a large poster picture of Alvaro Obregon, and upon the further wall a photograph of his widow, children. Everyone in the room smoked incessantly, the audience, the reporters, the nine jurymen and the judge. For what was being broadcast was the trial of José de Leon Toral and the nun, who is charged with being his "intellectual accomplice," Madre Concepci...
Robert Marion La Follette, 33, was, of course, re-elected in Wisconsin, much to the satisfaction of his mother, Belle, able widow and onetime helpmate of the last great La Follette...
Other winners of the Pictorial Review Prize have been: in 1924, Mrs. Edward A. MacDowell, widow of the late Composer MacDowell, for her musicaliterary colony in Peterborough, N. H.; in 1925, Cora Wilson Stewart, for her Moonlight Schools, and her work discouraging illiteracy; in 1926, Sara Graham Mulhall, for her work decreasing the drug traffic; in 1927, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, for her organization of the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City...