Word: widowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems to be a Nazi with Realmleader Hitler. When stories of German intrigue are spun one of the chief characters is always Meissner. He is supposed to have "made" half the post-War chancellors of the Reich. When Nazis broke into the House of Socialist President Ebert's widow with intent to carry off her son to a concentration camp, she managed to get through to Meissner on the telephone and he managed to get Hindenburg to tell Hitler to let the Socialist family of Ebert alone (TIME, March 27). That was the only time that Dr. Meissner faced...
Devout Catholics, the King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita...
Last week it became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance...
...musty corner of a Long Beach, Calif, garage last week was fought another newsworthy battle when a deadly black-widow spider met a venomous scorpion three times her size and weight. Taking the upper hand at the start, the spider slowly spun sticky strands about the scorpion's forelegs, pinioned one of its knifelike pincers. By the second day odds among the scores of spectators who thronged the garage were 4-to-1 on the spider, with few takers. On the third day the spider began to enmesh the scorpion's stinger in her web, boosted betting odds...
Pierce-Arrow. One of those rarities, a corporate grass widow, Pierce-Arrow was purchased by Studebaker in 1928, but after the Studebaker receivership last year, Pierce-Arrow was sent back to her old Buffalo friends. Last week Pierce-Arrow was in court again, this time petitioning for permission to reorganize under the new Bankruptcy Act. It has little cash, large bank loans. Its sales have dropped from 8,000 annually to 1,900. But Pierce-Arrow could still be the most aristocratic lady in any harem...