Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosie's," in New Haven, swiftly became as famous as those other academic stepladders? the late "Widow" Nolan's (into Harvard) and witty John Hun's (into Princeton). Its doors widened to receive, as well as shaky seniors, floundering sub-freshmen anxious for summer work or seeking to continue their studies after expulsion from boarding schools...
...Merry Widow. Love's riotous comedy supreme gave Director Erich von Stroheim a thousand opportunities to present the tintinnabulating toe, the flirting knee. Much to his credit, he seized only the hundred best, and between times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...
Meanwhile the Herr President was besporting himself on a strenuous vacation probably having forgotten that he had ever written or had his secretary write a statement for the Nation's Business. At Dietmannsried, in Bavaria, he was the guest of Frau Hubert Von Schilicher, the widow of a friend. There he rises at 7:30, according to report, works until noon, dines heartily, then walks for three or four hours in spite of his 78 years. Occasionally he goes on a chamois hunting expedition with his son, Major Von Hindenberg, his son-in-law, Herr Von Kugelgen...
...years a tide of U. S. students, recipients of the 96 scholarships established by Cecil John Rhodes, have invaded already cosmopolitan Oxford. Some two years ago Mrs. Henry P. Davison, widow of the onetime Chairman of the American Red Cross, modestly endeavored to create a reciprocal tide, established six scholarships, two each at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, for recipients to be sent (three each) from Oxford and Cambridge...
Last week the publishers of the late Camille Flammarion, famed astronomer, announced that ten volumes of his works were yet to be issued. All must be revised, edited; some entirely rewritten. This work, they added, has been undertaken by his widow, Gabrielle...