Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Gompers, widow of the late president of the American Federation of Labor: "I was fined $2 last week in Manhattan for failure to muzzle my dog, even though I insisted that nature had neglected to provide my pet with a suitably sized nose...
...bequeathed to Harvard University by the will of Mrs. Isabella Holden Corey, widow of D. P. Corey of Maiden...
...little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian X, of Norwegian King Haakon...
President Carl Raymond Gray of the Union Pacific R. R.: "Officials of my company expressed no surprise upon hearing that Mrs. W. D. Cornish of Manhattan, 80-year-old widow of one of our vice presidents and since his death an indefatigable traveler, had arrived safely at Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 4,000-mile motor trip from the Mediterranean shore of the continent, through the interior, accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then...
...married a widow, 52, the same year that Disraeli, 35, married a widow, 50, and Victoria, 21, married Albert...