Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this question was answered by the LaFollettes themselves. Mrs. Belle Case LaFollette, the Senator's widow, who had been urged to run, issued a statement...
Lord Curzon was twice married. His first wife, who bore him three daughters, was Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. His second wife, widow of one Alfred Duggan, daughter of J. Monroe Hinds, former U. S. Minister to Brazil, bore him no children, but had three of her own by her first marriage...
...terms of his will, his widow is left an interest in the London residence, a jointure worth about $5,000 annually and the residue of his personal property. The children by his first wife (Mary, Cynthia, Alexandra) having benefited "by the wills of their grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Leiter," were left "laces, fans, dresses, furs and personal belongings of their mother with the exception of the peacock dress* which she wore at the Delhi Durbar...
Brave days are still remembered in that house. Along its corridors goes Cosima Wagner, his widow-a grim, gaunt woman with the eyes of a sick eagle and the mouth of a field marshal; up and down she parades, while her petticoat rustles. The whisper of memories, ludicrous, pathetic, stirs to the swish of the old woman's skirt along the empty hall. ... A shaggy little man contorted over the piano, begging his wife to walk up and down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting...
...Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the President, joined the Needle Guild of America and made a little speech to the branch of Farmingdale, L. I., of which she became a member. She reminded them that the Guild was not a sewing circle and each member must present two knitted garments a year to some hospital patient unable to knit. She spoke on the seventh anniversary of the death of her son Quentin in France...