Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 16, Editor Payne cracked his whip and the Mirror started galloping. A full-page wash drawing showed the bodies of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills as they were found beneath the crabapple tree. The headline bleated : "HALL -MILLS MURDER MYSTERY BARED." The story insinuated that Widow Hall and her deficient brother "Willie" would be the storm centre of the new investigation...
Married. Maude Emery Smith, 58, widow of Alfred Holland Smith, onetime section foreman, onetime President of the New York Central lines; to one Harold F. Le Baron, 37, interior decorator...
...says William Michael Rossetti, "Masaccio was living in Florence with his mother, then for the second time a widow, and with his younger brother, a painter of no distinction; he possessed nothing but debts. Before the end of the next year, he disappeared from Florence, going, as it would appear, to Rome, to evade the importunities of creditors. Immediately afterwards, in 1429, when his age was 27 or 28, he was reported dead...
Died. Princess Laetitia Napoleon Bonaparte, 59, aunt of King Vittorio Emanuele ILL; widow of Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, onetime (1870-73) King of Spain; daughter of Prince ("Plon Plon") Napoleon; granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon I and King of Westphalia, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore) ; hence cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, onetime (1905-06) Secretary of the Navy and (1906-09) U. S. Attorney General; at Turin, Italy...
...Approval. Frederick Lonsdale's genius for smart repartee dialogue finds many a brilliant opportunity in a play with only four characters. Mrs. Wislack (Violet Kemble Cooper), widow, will experiment for one month with the temperament of mild Richard Halton (Wallace Eddinger) before risking another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack...