Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the Commander of the Shenandoah, had testified before the Mitchell court martial (TIME, Nov. 23) that Captain Paul Foley, U. S. N., Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry, had tried to influence the testimony she gave before that body. So the Court of Inquiry on reassembling made Captain Foley a defendant, and its new Judge Advocate, Major Leonard, U. S. M. C., summoned Mrs. Lansdowne and others as witnesses...
...wrong. Next day, from memoranda as to what Mrs. Lansdowne wished to say, he had prepared a suggested statement for her confined to facts within Mrs. Lansdowne's knowledge, so that it would not be necessary to question her. Said Captain Foley, "My concern was for the widow of the man I had taught at the Naval Academy. I was most anxious to have her appear in a dignified position before the Court...
Divorced. The onetime Miss Dorothy Benjamin of Manhattan, widow of Enrico Caruso, famed tenor, from former Captain Ernest Ingram; at Paris...
Died. Domicio Da Gama, sometime Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...
Died. Mrs. Sidney Drew, 35, widow of the actor, sister-in-law of famed actor John Drew, sometime cinema actress for the old Vitagraph Co. under the direction of her husband; at Los Angeles...