Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arts and sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix of $140,000,000, the largest fortune controlled by any woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot take rank among those women who made their money by their own unaided efforts. Most commentators therefore give the title "most successful business woman in the U. S." to a very different sort of lady who last week also appeared in the news...
...Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader at Hankow, partly because he is the brother-in-law of the late founder of the Nationalist movement, famed Dr. Sun Yatsen. He and his sister, the pretty widow, serve to remind soldiers and coolies of the great revolutionary name. 2) Eugene Chen, Foreign Secretary of the Nationalist Government, who employs a white U. S. citizen, as his under secretary, and said last week: "We are not antiforeign, but anti-imperial. We are not against Germany or Russia because they...
...goodness, isn't it lovely," cried his mother, Widow Jane Young, in Toronto. "George has always been a good son, light-hearted but never frivolous. He likes porterhouse steak and tea." Wrapped in blankets in California, the son said: "I want to bring mother to California...
Widener Library has just received from the library of the late Harcourt Amory '76, of Boston, his notable collection of Lewis Carroll books, pamphlets, and letters, containing many original drawings by John Tenniel, it was announced last night. This is a gift in memory of Mr. Amory from his widow and children, Gertrude A. Hutchins, Harcourt Amory '16, and John Singleton Amory...
...meeting last night following a dinner, the Student Council voted to send a resolution of sympathy to Mrs. Hallowell, widow of J. W. Hallowell '01, late President of the Associated Harvard Clubs and prominent in many Harvard graduate activities, who died recently...