Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed Means has been recently indicted for bribery and bootlegging. In 1917 he was indicted for the murder of Mrs. Maud A. King, a millionaire widow, who was shot after going automobiling with Means. He was acquitted. Two years later he produced a will of Mrs. King which was declared a forgery. According to his testimony, he has been employed by the German, British, Mexican and U. S. Governments, besides individuals. His employment with the German Government took place under Captain Boy-Ed and Ambassador von Bernstorff before the U. S. entered the War, and for it he is reputed...
...Miss Edith Dodge, his former secretary, he left $25,000; to each of his children, $35,000. His medical library and royalties on his works go to Dr. L. Emmett Holt, Jr. His widow receives the residue...
...Passed bill granting mail franking privilege to Edith Bolling Wilson, widow of Woodrow Wilson (previously passed by the Senate...
Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco. She is a widow. She has lived much of her life in Europe. She is completely of this century, of the minute, progressive, popular. She is a perfect example of the fact that no one in this world of writing who keeps his or her wits about, needs to be de-moded with the passage of time and the development of new fads and fancies. At present writing, and as I consider Mrs. Atherton, I have little patience with those exceedingly self-conscious members of the older generation who are, to quote George...
...agents, to whom Carter reserved the right to refuse admittance. By the terms of the concession granted to Lord Carnarvon in 1915, before the tomb was discovered, all rights of publication were to be his. Upon the Earl's death, the agreement was continued with his estate and widow, Countess Almina. Exclusive rights were sold to the London Times and the Associated Press. The Cairo authorities have been fighting this provision ever since the long-sought discovery aroused world-wide furore...