Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Franklin Millard, long resident in China as the meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times cabled a moving story: "A Chinese widow whose livelihood depends on a small flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
...cool-browed, wise Chinese wives who keep their own council but contrive to be more important than they seem - perhaps most important? There are many such. But only two wise wives loom from China today upon the international scene. Of these two, one is, strictly speaking, a widow. Both learned the wiles of men and nations...
...Pennsylvania (W. W. Atterbury) is left isolated, except for its relations through the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. with Mr. Loree and his aims. Because Mr. Loree is the railroad adviser to Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, widow of the man who organized the Union Pacific and the Illinois Central as most potent roads, such relations are important for a transcontinental trunk system. George Jay Gould tried this at one time. But the panic of 1907 wrecked him financially, destroyed his aims...
...that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader's sympathy is meant to go to crippled, homely, honest Elena. But Elena is more shrewish than shrewd. Her experiments with...
...They repeatedly defeat forces of greater numerical strength. the chief instructor of those armies is a graduate of M. I. T. With the advancing forces rides a vigorous woman in a sedan chair. Her mere presence electrifies tiring and hungry soldiers into instant activity. She is Chung Ling Soong, widow of Sun Yat Sen, who has become a God to half of China. She is a graduate of Wesleyan College, Georgia, one of the first colleges for girls in the South. When Pelin falls and a unified China restored to youth faces the world, the colleges of America may well...