Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start this winter in Palestine. A troupe of religiously mixed actors is to leave Manhattan in October. On schedule are 100 two-reel stories, some with dialog, some without. Some titles: "Abel, the Shepherd of Eden," "Joseph, the Vizier of Egypt," "David, the Shepherd King," "Ruth, the Widow of Moab," "Isaiah, the Poet-Prophet of Israel...
Therefore, at the funeral of M. Graf, strong peasant hands seized the bodice and skirt of his widow, tore them off, flung her naked into his open grave, and pelted in dirt...
Justice, personified by three gendarmes, disinterred and rescued Widow Graf before she could die of Polish Suttee...
...sides. Almost, friendship is a secondary business with Publisher Block. On his office desk lies a small brown leather book, stencilled "A Deed a Day." Here his secretary eagerly inscribes the Block benefactions: $5,000 to Commander Byrd, $10,000 for a new cathedral, $500 for the widow of a Manhattan fireman or policeman, an order to serve lemonade in his newspaper offices...
Justice could not avenge them, for want of evidence. But shrewd fellow peasants blamed the poisoning, last week, upon surviving Widower Niklos and surviving Widow Graf, whom the peasants further suspected of being adulterers...