Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beulah Lewis, widow, living alone, read the Atlanta Constitution until she got sleepy and then went up to bed, taking the cat with her. She was half undressed when the gentlemen in white began breaking down her front door. They roared when, having shot their way into the bedroom, the cat confronted them, licking nervous chops, on the top of a bedpost. One man fired from the hip; the cat tumbled off the post. The woman had fainted but they revived her. Then they stripped her, beat her unconscious...
...went to no one man, maid, wife or widow but to the students, professors and employes of the Académic des Beaux Arts of Madrid who had clubbed together to purchase one of the 60,000 lottery tickets...
Died. Mrs. Lafayette Young, 82, widow of the late Publisher of Des Moines Capital (TIME, Nov. 29); in Des Moines, of heart disease five weeks after her husband's death...
...play full of infinitesimal subtleties for the infinite satisfaction of folk who like Arnold Bennett on the stage. An artist who would be known to the world by his work only, changes places with his valet. The valet dies suddenly. The artist goes on painting, marries a bourgeois little widow. Their life is disturbed when the artist is rediscovered by professional collectors. The problem of the play is to make the wife realize that the man she married for a butler is really an artist...
Engaged. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne (killed in wreck of naval dirigible Shenandoah, Sept. 3, 1925); to one John Caswell Jr., cotton man of New York and Boston...