Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the precedent of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick who borrowed $11,000,000 by issuing notes against stocks held in trust (TIME, July 1), last week Mrs. Matilda R. Wilson, widow of Motor-maker John F. Dodge, offered through her bankers $3,000,000 worth of certificates at 6% interest in a collateral trust of municipal bonds...
...Louis, the widow and friends of the late Charles Kuhn, 73, were holding a wake when Widow Kuhn discovered the corpse was not that of her husband. The wake was indefinitely postponed...
...with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot to the graveyard...
...Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...
...Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...