Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he was given a job assisting Rodman Wanamaker take care of the Widow Harding's affairs. When she died, he went with Mr. Wanamaker to the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Commission (1926). Finally President Coolidge unobtrusively tucked him away into the U. S. Shipping Board, as assistant to James Caldwell Jenkins, vice president of Merchant Fleet Corp. Last week George Christian gladly resigned that place. Samuel Ungerleider, who a month ago resigned from the brokerage firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider to become president of Distillers and Brewers Corp. of America, made a position for him in the sales department...
...amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
...Captain Richard King, Seminole tighter and Rio Grande pilot. It has been ruled for the past half century by a dynasty of Klebergs: Robert I, who married the Captain's daughter, and Robert II. their reigning son. The Klebergs ruled but the Captain's widow, spunky little Henrietta King, kept the ownership up to her death in 1925. Her will left the estate in trust for ten or 15 years...
Married. Mrs. Madeline Force Dick, 40, widow of John Jacob Astor, divorced wife of William K. Dick; to Italian Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 26, onetime boxing instructor to her sons; in a Manhattan hospital, where she is recuperating from a broken...
...quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other spider poison in his experience...