Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this mausoleum, last week, there stood a throng of silent persons. These were relatives of the late Caruso, including his widow Dorothy; come to pay homage to the greatest of their clan. Soon they knelt in an attitude of prayer before the casket. Mrs. Caruso left the crypt, leading by the hand her daughter Gloria II, who was weeping...
...also at large. It was Enrico Jr. who last week arrived in the U. S. on an errand concerning his father's business affairs. His errand concerned specifically the royalties for Victor records which, as the records are sold, are now paid to the tenor's widow according to arrangement in a U. S. court. An Italian court had arranged that one half of these royalties be paid to Mrs. Caruso, one eighth be paid to Gloria Caruso and the rest to Enrico Jr., his uncle, Giovanni and his brother, Rudolpho. To eliminate the discrepancy in these advices...
...ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins and Alice Timoney, sisters, southerners, journalists. The members of the cast are exceedingly...
...Ritz died 15 years ago. His widow now runs the Paris Ritz in the bar of which countless roustabouts have spent their leisure hours. Charlie Ritz, the one of César's two sons now living, has little of his father's interest in the hotel business, though it was last week rumored that he intends soon to share with his mother the management of the Ritz in Paris. An affable fellow, his mustache is waxed and he does not quite justify the magnificence of his last name...
Canadian tobaccoman, left an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000. According to his will, the principal is not to be disturbed for 50 years, but the interest goes to his widow and son, Mortimer B. Davis Jr. (husband of Dancer Rosie Dolly). After 50 years...