Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, "his gracious spouse," as a Washington newspaper described her, appeared on the rear platform. Several office-seekers hurried to them?Senator William M. Butler, who will have to face the Massachusetts electorate against onetime (1919-25) Senator David I. Walsh next year, and Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, widow of the late representative, who is candidate to succeed her husband against former Governor Noble Foss of Massachusetts. There also was Frank W. Stearns, merchant-friend of the President. Cameras clicked. A schoolboy dashed up with a box of flowers for Mrs. Coolidge. The President entered his car, and the party?...
Newspaper men have killed his parents in various ways; it is said that the paternal Chaplin died of natural causes and his widow (known to the boards as Lily Harley) went into dressmaking, taught Charles and his brother Sydney to hem flounces; there is still another affecting scene in which Chaplin, a sallow waif in bloomers, is portrayed leading his starved mother to a poorhouse while London gamins revile him for his kindliness. It was owing to this incident, some doters, declare, that his eyes acquired that tragic, haunted cast...
...dunes at Southampton, L. I., is a little bungalow of perhaps 20 rooms-property of Mrs. Henry R. Rea, widow-leased for the summer by Andrew W. Mellon. There the Secretary, if he wills, may romp directly from his dressing room into the surf...
When Hugo Stinnes, the John Davison Rockefeller of Germany, died, last year (TIME, Apr. 21, 1924), his vast interests were left to his Witwe (widow), Frau Klaire Wagenknecht Stinnes, and direction of the estate was divided between Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, the eldest of Herr Stinnes' five children, and "Junior" (Hugo Hermann) Stinnes, the second...
Last week, twice a widow, she became Miss Eleanor Collins in order to avoid the ubiquity of the press...