Word: widowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tradition is about to be violated on the opposite side of Holyoke Street, where Dunster House and the old Advocate House are to come down, sacrificed on the altar of the tutoring schools. The Manter Hall School, successor to "Widow" Nolen, is to build a new home on will return to the new building, while The Advocate and the Dramatic Club, or phans of the storm, have already moved to Didgely Annex, in the rear of Ridgely Hall...
Then Senator Reed looked into the Republican campaign manager's story of an "$8,000,000 international hankers' pool" to elect Democratic senators in Indiana. This simmered down to a $600 bureau run by the gentle-voiced widow of a minister to promote "world friendship among children...
Martha Washington. "In any case, the meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
Died. Lady Elizabeth Grace Dimsdale, 44, widow of Sir John Dimsdale of London, who shot himself in 1922, "social house mistress" at Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Conn., girls' school); in London, by drinking lysol...
...written letters, from his youth this supreme delineator of the other sex had been the confidant and counsellor of women. In his boyhood he was secretary-general to all the lovesick girls of his neighborhood; at of even he addressed a hortatory epistle, stuffed with tests to a scandalizing widow; and whenever it was possible, to correspond with any one, he was as 'corresponding' as even Horace Walpole could have desired." At the age of 50, he corresponded with the world in Pamela...