Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McPherson, born near Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1890, ran away from home in 1907 (at 17) to accompany one Robert Semple, evangelist. They barnstormed the tabernacles of Canada, China, Australia. The man died in 1911-a month before Roberta Star Semple was born. The widow pet-named her baby "Star of the East...
Reported Engaged. Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, widower of famed Lillian Russell; to Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram, widow of Enrico Caruso (famed tenor), onetime wife of Captain G. A. Ingram...
...woman for whom love is not enough.* She, Mary Hansyke, is 14 years old and very beautiful when Gerry Hardman meets her for the first time, When she has vainly waited a year for a second meeting, she marries Archie Roxby, bears him a son, becomes his widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves...
Divorced. Harry Hays Morgan; by Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Trezvant Morgan; in Paris. They are the parents of the famed "Morgan twins," Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (widow of Reginald C. Vanderbilt) and Lady Thelma Morgan Converse Furness of London. Mrs. Morgan is the daughter of the late General Judson Kilpatrick, thrice Ambassador to Chile. Mr. Morgan, after 40 years in the U. S. diplomatic service, retired as U. S. Consul General at Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, the late Philip Hickey Morgan, was onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his son, Harry Hays Morgan...
Died. John Teele Pratt, 53, Standard Oil financier; suddenly of heart disease; in his Broadway office, Manhattan. Thirty-six years ago his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address. Mrs. Ruth S. Pratt, widow of John Teele Pratt, is the first and only woman to function as a New York City alderman...