Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony...
...Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband's bubbles as vice-president of the company, which she watched carefully as it developed a turnover of some ten millions per annum. By no means content with her across-the-soda-counter knowledge of the public, she plunged last spring into...
Died. Mrs. A. Montgomery Ward, 70, widow of the mail order marketer; at her Chicago home, of heart disease, following heat prostration on a train going through the desert near Yuma, Ariz...
Last week the three still hung on, held their trysting with Death once more, but this time another draped chair, was added to the swaths of barren seats closing in on the survivors. An aged woman bustled about arranging the grim table prettily. She was the widow of the color bearer of old "B" company...
Young Horvendile, Manuel's satanic overlord, tells them off quietly. Dame Niafer has already taken up with a holy man and begun the legend of Manuel, making him out ridicuously admirable for posterity, as a pious widow should. Gonfal of Naimes is told to go southward and does so, becoming a champion of misadventure among the Transcendentalists of Inis Dahut, enjoying the favors of their dark queen, Morvyth, while younger, less sensible men scour the earth for some marvelous token that will win her hand...