Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Mrs. Carolyn Greenwald Rothstein, widow of Manhattan's late, ill-famed Arnold Rothstein; to Robert Behar, London rug dealer; in London...
Died. Florence Busch Bull, 58. widow of Dr. William Tillinghast ("Billy") Bull, (famed oldtime Yale dropkicker and scrub-team coach), aunt of the late Editor Briton Haddon of TIME; in New Haven, Conn...
...Boston Airport, even newsmen and news services could get planes only through the Fleischmann Traffic Department. First arrivals from afar in the flooded districts were airmen carrying Fleischmann yeast. Nor is Fleischmann service limited only to yeast deliveries. When a Fleischmann baker died suddenly, leaving a distracted widow with several small children, one Fleischmann man took charge of the funeral, another Fleischmann man ran the bakery until the widow was able to operate it again...
Upon the S. S. France appeared Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey, widow of Sculptor Rumsey, daughter of the late great Railroader E. H. Harriman. She declared $1,500 of Paris finery. The inspectors were not satisfied, seized $100,000 worth of jewelry and eleven pieces of baggage. When the France was two days at sea, Mrs. Rumsey had given a jeweled purse to her friend and fellow passenger, Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Bori is a Spanish citizen. Her personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that...
Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...