Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crane is the widow of George W. Beckford-a famous granite king of Hardwick, Vt., he having built such buildings as our Post Office at Washington, D. C. They had two sons and one daughter. This daughter died at the age of four years. She then adopted a little girl the same...
...spinsters, who paint wretched watercolors, and quarrel over Hedonism. There are plenty of charming young girls, and no eligible young men. Finally there is Sydney Warren, a lovely girl of 22, sophisticated, neurotic, who provides the hotel with faintly perverted gossip because of her infatuation for a charming widow, Mrs. Kerr. Sydney tries to escape the pity of ever-present hotel guests by affiancing herself to a sanguine, vacationing clergyman aged 40, but the clergyman is quickly followed by an anticlimax...
...mother of these sprightly spinsters is Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, lawful widow of the late Richard Marsden Pankhurst, LL.D. She too has dabbled in suffrage and brick throwing but now confines herself to peaceably furthering national reforms...
...Senator Clark died, willing his art treasures to the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, on condition that it would keep them as an integral exhibit. The Metropolitan refused the treasures on these terms, but not the Corcoran Art Gallery of Washington, substitute legatee. ... Last week, with Senator Clark's widow on his arm, President Coolidge walked through the Corcoran's new Clark annex, followed by a gala procession, and looked at the pictures, tapestries, laces, rugs, faiences, sculptures, furniture and other gimcracks collected to the tune of perhaps five millions by old Bill Martin's alleged oldtime pardner, Bill...
Engaged. Prince Eitel Friedrich, 44, second son of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Mme. Clara Sielchen Schwartz, 52, widow of Opera Singer Joseph Schwartz. Reputed second wealthiest prince in Europe, Eitel Friedrich was divorced in 1927 by the former Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who subsequently married a Berlin police officer...