Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary W. Harriman, widow of Railroad-Financier Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909): "The gold medal which I give annually to the railroad with the best non-accident record again went to the Union Pacific last week. My husband, of whose $100,000,000 estate I am sole heir and manager, built up the Union Pacific system. My sons are both directors. The Union Pacific, which received the medal in 1925 for its 1924 record, obtained the present award because last year its locomotives traveled the equivalent of 53,000,000 miles and carried the equivalent...
...Peking at all. Next day the press of Shanghai, quick to take a hint, sadly urged its readers to "make the best of the fact that Great Britain is eventually going to recognize the Cantonese Government at Wuchang." Meanwhile from Canton there set out Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb. 1912), famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled...
...enormously popular Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, N. J., a syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
...Story.* On a December night in 1906, a ferocious storm swept across Glebeshire. In its cathedral town of Polchester (by the river, by the sea) in her old, old house in Canon's Yard, sat Mrs. Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor...
...meets Leeta, a young war widow of expensive tastes, who was rather up against it--a nice girl, of course, but one such as do live in the greater cities...