Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Ventre, a cheap little crook indicted with the dead gunman's widow, was not long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed...
Married. Mrs. Kathryn Coniff Heinz, 38, widow of a nephew of the late Henry John Heinz ("57 Varieties" ): and Thomas F. R. McGuire, 52, Manhattan detective, onetime mounted patrolman; in Jersey City...
Budget Director Lewis Williams Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, widow of Dwight Whitney Morrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D. Harvard Professor Arthur Stanley Pease, retired president of Amherst . .LL.D. Amherst Trustee Frank Waterman Stearns, friend of the late Calvin Coolidge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
...Jersey College for Women Mrs. Garret Augustus Hobart, widow of McKinley's Vice President Doctor of Philanthropy...
...marriage of convenience and an opportunity to indulge in luxury. . . . The wife liked excitement, social affairs and a good time, and no blame is attached to her for that, because at her age such things are to be expected." Separated. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, widow of John Jacob Astor who was drowned on the Titanic; and William K. Dick, sugar tycoon...