Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph E. Davies, counsel for Mrs. Lansdowne, widow of the Commander of the Shenandoah, having demanded of the Navy Department that either the Shenandoah Court be discharged or that he be allowed to appear in court for his client, was last week answered by Rear Admiral Edward H. Campbell, Judge Advocate General. Admiral Campbell pointed out that Mrs. Lansdowne was a witness not a defendant before the Court, and that neither in civil nor in military cases is a witness entitled to be represented by counsel. He added that if Mrs. Lansdowne or Mr. Davies had objections to the propriety...
...Washington, substitute legatee, would reject it too for lack of room. Last week President Charles C. Glover of the Corcoran Gallery announced that certain parties had contributed $700,000 for the building of a wing to house the collection. The certain parties were the late Senator's widow, his three daughters...
Loew's State--"The Merry Widow" Fenway--"That Royle Girl...
...Only in the sense of being difficult for me. It would not be a pleasant duty for me as Judge Advocate to break down the testimony of the widow of a gallant brother officer who had died in line of duty...
...little grey-haired widow, Mrs. Bessie Ellinger, Janitress of three Manhattan tenements, heard loud cries in one of her hallways, rushed in to find a quivering taxi-driver being beaten by three bandits. Moved by the wretch's groans, she fell upon his attackers from behind. They fled to the empty cab but Bessie Ellinger leaped on the running board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew...