Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S knowledge of the Scriptures is lamentable. Recently the Atlantic Monthly spoke ignorantly of the "parable" of the Widow's Mite. TIME showed just as profound ignorance [Sept. 26] when she corrected Mr. A. F. Higgins' misquotation of Scripture in a footnote, but failed to correct Mr. Higgins' second Scripture reference. "PornoGraphic" can humbly pray with the Samaritan: "Oh, Lord, be merciful to me a Samaritan," and his words were "God, be merciful to me a Sinner." Nor is this the first occasion that TIME has shown ignorance of Scripture. However, I will not burden...
Convalescent in hospital, Judge Johnson, a public servant whose experience includes school teaching among Indians, declared Widow Simmons irresponsible, crazy, hallucinated. So did U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah, who was surprised to hear that Mrs. Simmons, whom he had never met, would rather have "gotten" him than Judge Johnson for assistance she fancied he had rendered the Utah Copper...
...would want to kill Judge Tillman Davis Johnson? Mrs. Eliza Simmons, widow, was one person. "I'll show you how to get justice!" was what she had screamed as she shot. At her home, Widow Simmons produced a rambling document penned by her, in which she declared war on the Utah Copper Co., for whom her husband had been a brakeman until his accidental death in 1910, and on "hardboiled" Judge Johnson...
...Widow of the late Senator Medill McCormick, she, aged 47, has lived and breathed politics since she was old enough to realize that her father, the late Mark Hanna, was a very important man. When Mark Hanna was in the U. S. Senate, she, a smart bud, fresh from Dobbs Ferry and Farmington, was there too, at work in his office. She says: "If I wanted to dance until four o'clock in the morning, well and good, but I had to be in the office just the same at nine o'clock and be good-natured about...
Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent...