Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourth Congressional District of California (part of the City of San Francisco) elected Florence Prag Kahn, widow of Congressman Julius Kahn (TIME, Dec. 29), to succeed him in the House of Representatives...
...first time? were eight of the grandchildren of the late President by his second marriage brought together. (His granddaughter, by his first marriage, Paulina Longworth, two weeks old, was perforce absent. So was Dirck*, two months old son of Kermit.) The chaperons of the party included the President's widow and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt. The entertainer was Houdini, the great ectoclast...
...left a widow-Zita-to find sanctuary in Spain with her children. That young Otto* will ever restore his mother's fortunes is perhaps too much to hope...
...Library recently acquired a large addition to its Lincolniana when the late "Widow" Nolen bequeathed his famous collection to the University. This remarkable collection consists not only of a large number of books, but pamphlets, magazine articles, and a very complete collection of busts and statuettes. It is still lying in the basement of the Library awaiting an inventory, but as soon as this is made, it probably will to be on exhibition...
...criticized adversely for extravagance, for maintaining a larger army than conditions warrant, for costly foreign embassies. But more striking than this are comments from Mrs. Casement, widow of the notorious Roger Casement, executed during the war for treason, from St. John Ervine, famed Irish novelist and dramatist, from John Dillon, onetime leader of the Home Rule Party...