Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style is vivid, almost nervous. The first chapter is the narration of a juryman in a case involving a suit for civil damages by the widow of a famed banker killed by a young lawyer, who used his beautiful wife to further his professional ambitions, only to find that she had been seduced by the famed banker; and who thereupon killed the trespasser and invoked the unwritten law. A note at the end of the chapter states that the facts were for the most part imaginary...
Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca. Chief cause of this sinking was Ignacio Sadurdino Molinet, 19-year-old native of Cuba, Cornell's 179-pound backfield torpedo. Score: Cornell 14, Columbia...
...hairdresser that "that dangerous woman" is stopping at Bar Harbor, the very next town. As Miss Coe puts it, "she revisits the spot as a criminal revisits the scene of her crimes". A tense War of the Roses follows, but Tony gets "a cold chill" by visiting the widow. The "fire of youth" is turned to "true love", Mother Mason attaches herself to the Professor, and "The Other Rose" at last has her "romance...
...five papers represented on the executive committee which is directing the convention are the Lampoon, the Cornell Widow, the Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern, the Princeton Tiger, and the Voo Doo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Cheyenne, Wyo., to nominate a successor to the late Governor William B. Ross (TIME, Oct. 13, MILESTONES). Two speeches were made, the roll-call by counties was begun. Then the Convention nominated by acclamation the second feminine gubernatorial nominee in U. S. history-Mrs. William B. Ross, widow of the late Governor. Antiquaries recalled that, in 1869, Wyoming (then a territory) enfranchised women before any other state or territory had done...