Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. The Marquess of Abergavenny, 75, famed landowner (50,000 acres) of London and Tunbridge Wells, England; and Viscountess Hardinge, 59, widow of the 3d Viscount Hardinge; in London. The first wife of the Marquess died in 1880, the second last year...
...saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally...
Courage, is a play constructed largely out of the bright sayings of children as made to a mother whose wisdom and tenderness is that of Dorothy Dix. Tom Barry wrote Courage and Janet Beecher, who has a public, played it. She was an extravagant widow with seven children; these with the exception of the youngest abused her for wasting their inheritance. The one who was loyal was rewarded when the lady next door, who had loved his pretty, boyish face, left him $500,000 when she died. Thus there was plenty dough for everybody...
...cronies, is darkly massive, fastidious, redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored bar for Dr. Fenton...
Died. Mrs. Arthur Edward Stilwell, 68, widow of the late famed railroad builder (TIME, Oct. 8); by an eight-story leap from her apartment, 13 days after the death of her husband; in Manhattan. Both Mr. & Mrs. Stilwell were spiritualists, students of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge. Mr. Stilwell once declared that "brownies" advised him in his business enterprises. Mrs. Stilwell left a note, stating that her death would take her to Mr. Stilwell "on another plane of consciousness...