Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left to pay off the messenger who brings a parcel for his bride, the extremities to which he is forced to evade the fearsome Cambodians, may be imagined. To round out the plot there is a French widow with a prodigious family of daughters and a treasure chest for the Crown Prince of Siam. Numerous officers and the Crown Prince himself take care of the daughters, and the Regent looks out for the treasure chest and incidentally, the window...
...City that Never Sleeps. This is a warning to modern mothers not to become bootleggers for the sake of the family income. The mother involved, widow of a saloon keeper, kept selling liquor even after 1919 to give her daughter the "advantages." Among the advantages in her Park Avenue existence the daughter found cocktails and a fortune hunter. When the latter began shooting at the police in the mother's downtown cabaret, the girl recalled the tableau long ago when her father was murdered in the old saloon. She recognized her mother and returned to her childhood sweetheart...
...Brockton, and also the Brockton Hospital. Less than two months ago he was overtaken by what was described as "a pernicious ailment." He went to the Peter Bent-Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he was operated on twice-to no avail. Last week he died. He left a widow, two living daughters, two half sisters, three half brothers, six grandchildren, a nephew, a niece...
Born. To Capt. and Mrs. Ernest Ingram (who are estranged), a daughter; in Manhattan. Mrs. Ingram is the widow of Enrico Caruso, the mother of his daughter, Gloria...
...scholarship in government, to be named after Charles J. Bonaparte '71, L.L.B. '74, secretary of the navy and attorney general during the Roosevelt Administration, will be established at Harvard, it was Peared recently, when the will of Mrs. Ellen Channing Bonaparte, widow of the late statesman, was filed...