Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Mrs. Matilda R. Dodge, widow of the late John F. Dodge, founder (with his brother Horace) of the Dodge Bros. Automobile Co. (TIME, Apr. 13, BUSINESS), to one Alfred G. Wilson, Detroit lumber man. He is a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church where she is President of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society...
...Edith, widow of the late John Jacob Rogers, U. S. Congressman from the Massachusetts district, announced her candidacy to succeed her husband. She emulates two San Francisco women-Mrs. Mae Nolan, Mrs. Florence Kahn-who took their husbands' seats in Congress. Humphrey O'Sullivan (rubber heels) will run against her on the Democratic ticket. All Republican aspirants retired in her favor. Both Mrs. Kahn and Mrs. Rogers are widely known and well-liked at the Capital...
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight, widow of the late...
Lord Curzon married first Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Washington, D.C.; a widower, he married Grace Hinds, daughter of the late ]. Monroe Hinds, onetime U. S. Minister to Brazil, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. The marquisate and earldom now become extinct. Richard Nathaniel Curzon, nephew, succeeds by "special remainder" to the Viscounty of Scarsdale. Lady Mary Irene Curzon, eldest daughter, and granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter, becomes, also by special remainder, Baroness of Ravensdale in her own right...
...hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...