Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Brookshire, D. D. was pronounced dead of a heart attack and no indications of drowning. The Rev. Brookshire is survived by his widow Catherine Main Brookshire and one son John Decker Brookshire...
...TIME, Jan. 15, 22). Accuser Henriot was sure that the Government "murdered" Stavisky whose body was found by Secret Service agents weltering in his blood at the Alpine resort of Chamonix, apparently a suicide. But Accuser Henriot went further. "When the unmarried girl who is now Stavisky's widow was arrested in connection with a burglary," he shouted, "she did not go to jail! They said she was with child and they put her in a hospital under guard. Messieurs, only two visitors were allowed access to the bedside of that young girl. Both of them are now Ministers...
...England town of Sparta. But the things she has lived for-the family name, her brother, her father, the man she used to love-have failed her. She will be sorry to die but not unready. In 1930 the last of her idols falls. From his cheap French widow Sara hears the truth about her beloved brother: he was a wastrel who died a drunkard's death. In 1929 she sees for the last time the fiance who jilted her but with whom she has always been in love. A onetime ambassador now, a rich man of the world...
...pathos of this dramatic struggle is not fully drawn out. Mr. Gregory fails to create for us all the tragedy and struggle of the young widow's effort toward faithfulness to her husband and to the demands of her lover. The author's style is clear, simple, and vivid but the profundity of thought necessary for the development of his central theme is lacking to him and the book never rises above mediocrity. It would take a more sensitive mind and a more delicate artistry to achieve the heights in a novel with such a powerful theme and Mr. Gregory...
...Kollwitz' technique of exaggerating significant details to grotesqueness for emphasis makes the work difficulty intelligible. At her best, as in the lithograph "Brot" she achieves striking beauty with remarkable simplicity and economy of line. Most powerful of the exhibits are the series of fascinating self-portraits, versions of "The Widow II," the conventional "Dance Around the Guillotine," and the symbolic "Hunger's Whip." Dr. Kuhn is to be congratulated for bringing such an exhibit to the Germanic Museum...