Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report has yet to be approved by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur before it becomes final. Some ardent supporters of Colonel Mitchell called it a "whitewashing." Mrs. Lansdowne, widow of the commander of the Shenandoah, read the findings of the Court and then is alleged to have told a reporter...
Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...
Gladstone gave Chamberlain a little pettifogging job in two cabinets. And Chamberlain resented both appointments. He was fitted to have filled' the highest position in the gift of Gladstone, that is, out- side of an appointment to some legal office. His (Chamberlain's) widow, the present Mrs. W. H. Carnegie, will contribute something on this subject some...
Ralston, Spencer and Ladd; also to give a year's pay to the widow of a deceased acting assistant doorkeeper in consideration of funeral expenses; also to give six months' pay to the son of a deceased messenger of the Senate in consideration of funeral expenses...
...Burr was admitted to the bar at Albany and six months later, then 26, he married Theodosia Barton Prevost. In spite of his attainments with the ladies, he married a woman, ten years his senior, the widow of a British officer who had died in the West Indies, the mother of five children, but she was one of the most accomplished women in America...