Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lives. Despite the Acadians indifference to their danger, however, only ten lives are definitely known to have been lost in Louisiana, though rumor has listed the dead at more than 100. Nine of the dead belonged to one family, a widowed woman and her eight children. Caught as the flood entered Plaucheville, the Widow Dupré fled with her children to the second story of her home. The water poured into the house, reached the second story, continued to rise. A rescue boat found the entire family huddled together, drowned...
...Medill McCormick (Republican national committeewoman from Illinois, daughter of the late Senator Mark A. Hanna, widow of the U. S. Senator from Illinois) addressed Westchester County women in the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan, for 15 minutes. Then she said: "I am sorry but I am going to faint," toppled into the arms of a politician beside her, was carried from the room. Mrs. McCormick soon recovered...
Died. Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet, 38, famed cabaret dancer; from tuberculosis, in Lausanne, Switzerland. His dancing partners, two of whom he married, included: Joan Sawyer, his onetime wife Florence Walton, Leonora Hughes, Barbara Bennett and his widow Eleanor Ambrose...
Sentimental feelings of satisfaction invariably follow announcements to the effect that a widow has been appointed in succeed her late husband in Congress, that one brother has been chosen for the place left vacant by the other's death, that one close friend is named to fill the shoes of a friend that is gone. With the news of the selection of James Lawrence '01 to the position on the Harvard Fund Council formerly held by the late John White Hallowell '01 comes that same satisfaction. Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Hallowell were classmates and close friends at college and afterwards...
Therefore the "Women's Club of the United States"* is planning to name Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the War President, as a candidate for President...