Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite his flair for mixing with chambers of commerce and booming the shipping facilities of Hampton Roads, he has helped to revive in Virginia politics. This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence of all the F. F. V.'s, Woodrow Wilson's widow and President Alderman of the University of Virginia, but also in the presence of all Virginia's onetime Governors who are yet alive. The affair, most brilliant of Virginia's social year, was given under the auspices of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In what State besides Virginia...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
...Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay, formerly Grace Marquerite Lethbridge, is the young widow of the late Sir Robert Hay-Drummond-Hay, C. M. G., His Majesty's Consul General in Syria, whose second wife she became in 1920 when he was 74 years of age. With Karl H. Von Wiegand, Lady Drummond-Hay will keep Hearst papers in constant touch by radio with the progress of the trip...
Divorced. Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan and cosmopolite; by Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, thrice-married turf-woman, divorced wife of Dr. Smith Hollis McKim of Baltimore (1911), widow of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who lost his life on the Lusitania; in Reno, Nev., Mr. Baker was said to be contemplating marriage to Mrs. Delphine I. Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late autotycoon Horace E. Dodge, divorced two weeks ago from James H. R. Cromwell, Manhattan banker...
Some 3,000,000 persons annually contribute $1,000,000 each year to these mission funds. Many a widow's mite, many a tot's tithe swells the total. Part of Treasurer Carnes's job was to lend money to needy wayside churches, and Treasurer Carnes thereby made contacts with wayside bankers, whom he won as he had won the board. His word alone was good at many a Southern bank, and often he borrowed $15,000, $10,000 and like sums "for the board...