Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair is the widow of a Washington attorney, who left her no money. She secured a clerkship in the Department of Labor. President Harding made her position permanent. President Coolidge allowed her to serve two years beyond the regular retirement age- 70. The reason for this universal desire to serve Mrs. McBlair is that her grandfather...
...Lenine. Famed anti-Communist fire-eater, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") declared amid laughter, in answer to a question, that the widow of famed Bolshevist idol Lenine has applied for permission to end her days in England. Said the doughty "Jix," stiffly: "Such an application would be treated on its merits, if presented...
There is no law requiring it, but it has become customary for Congress to pass a law granting a pension of $5,000 a year to the widow of a President. Last week a Congressman from Rhode Island, Richard S. Aldrich, introduced a bill for a $5,000 pension to Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, saying it was about time that a similar provision was made for widows of Vice Presidents...
Miss Winwood plays a widow, and the brothers two young males in love with her. Ralph Morgan is humble, inefficient and attractive, constructed by the playwright to appeal to the mother instinct of the lady. Frank Morgan is the conquering sort. You will have to see for yourself who wins. No doubt you will be entertained in the process. But if taking the children, remember it is French...
...same day the Reinhardt Galleries announced that they had just sold Mr. Sargent's portrait of Princess Demidov to Mrs. Edward D. Libbey, widow of the Toledo glass manufacturer...