Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late Mark A. Hanna (Republican Senator from Ohio) and widow of Medill McCormick (Republican Senator from Illinois), announced that she would support Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, who is seeking re-election in his state. Senator McCormick was a confirmed isolationist. Senator McKinley voted for the World Court. Senator Borah and other isolationists recently made speeches in Chicago against the World Court. Evidently Mrs. McCormick did not approve this attack on Mr. McKinley in his home territory...
During the first Mrs. Harrison's lifetime, her niece, Mrs. Dimmick (Mary Scott Lord), the widow of a lawyer who had died at sea of typhoid on their honeymoon some ten years before, stayed at the White House with her aunt and the President for some two years...
...Lady Zaharoff, widow of H.R.H. Prince Francis de Bourbon, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the richest man in Europe, died last night of heart disease at Monte Carlo." Thus ran a single cabled sentence which might have been expanded into columns...
...length, in 1923, Prince Francis de Bourbon, Duke of Marquena, died. His widow (54) and Sir Basil (74) had waited some three decades for one another. They waited no longer. They married, if not "in haste," at once...
...portrait of Adolphus Busch, donor of the building, has been given by his widow, Mrs. Lilly Busch. The picture, a copy of the portrait painted by Anders Zorn shortly before Mr. Busch's death, now hangs in the vestibule of the museum...