Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...89th birthday of Grover Cleveland was celebrated in Manhattan last week. President Cleveland's widow, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, his son Richard Cleveland, a Baltimore lawyer, and his daughter Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, were present. The faded shingle bearing the name "G. Cleveland" which hung in front of a law office in Buffalo many years ago, was presented to Richard Cleveland. Mrs. Susie Cleveland Yeomans, 83 (sister), heard tributes to her brother by radio in her Brooklyn home...
...second case was that of a widow with two small children living in three rooms, only two of which were heated. She was a weaver, a skilled worker, and received $15 a week out of which she just managed to pay her rent of $17 a month and support her children. She had worked nights but her health had given way and she was forced to change to day work to save her life...
...died in 1909, leaving $10,000,000 to his boy, who was then at Groton preparing for college. The bulk of the estate, $100,000,000, went to the widow, Mary W. Harriman. She is manager of the estate, is active in charitable work, passes from her home at "Arden House," Harriman, N. Y., to her Manhattan town residence...
Married. Georgette Cohan, 25, daughter of famed actor-producer George M. Cohan, widow of J. William Souther, broker; to William Hamilton Rowse, perfumer; at Manhattan. When she married Mr. Souther in 1921, she telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle Boy. Wave your flag." Importer Rowse is a naturalized American (onetime Englishman...
...Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he visited recently at Doorn (TIME, Nov. 30, GERMANY), retired General Manager of the great Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff, created a member of the Privy Council by Edward VII; at London, after prophesying his death some weeks ago and ordering that the Merry Widow Waltz be played at his funeral...