Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan last week celebrated by electing to its city council, its first alderwoman. She is not the widow of a politician. Instead she is a local political leader, the wife of a financier, the mother of five children, and a society woman. Her husband is John T. Pratt, Amherst '96, son of Charles Pratt who was one of the Standard Oil men; he is a lawyer, the director of a few railroads, and rates himself as a financier...
...mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every three Follies girls must be a preacher's daughter. Mary Lewis was adopted when she was eight years old by Rev. William Fitch of Little Rock...
...charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman. The pangs of their readjustment strike deeply into the lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated, a saintly semimythical Princess and a courageous widow through whom the husband discovers how irrevocably he belongs to his wife. It is a sombre tale, told with great power and refinement and extraordinary grasp of the inward structure of the characters...
Married. Mrs. Edith Dresser Vanderbilt, 51, widow of George Washington Vanderbilt, to wealthy, aristocratic Peter Goelet Gerry, 46, senior U. S. Senator from Rhode Island. She was given in marriage in London by the Hon. John F. A. Cecil, husband of her daughter Cornelia...
Married. For the sixth time, De Wolf Hopper, 67, famed Thespian, to Lillian Glaser, 29, singer, widow of a California dentist; at Hartfod, Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...