Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alice Brydon Ritchie, widow of Harold F. ("Carload") Ritchie, famed Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...
...oblivion: the cramming school tutor. For years and years college and university authorities have striven with scant success (save in the case of Professor John L. Lowes, of Harvard, who allows students in his courses to bring all their text books into examinations) to circumvent the wily tutor. The Widow Nolan at Cambridge, Johnny Hun at Princeton, and Rosie at New Haven could seldom be outwitted. They perfected systems of question spotting that would drive to despair the mathematicians who try to beat the wheel at Monte Carlo. Not-too-bright young men and the gilded youths who spent their...
Harvardmen were unimpressed. New college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written...
...Budapest, Andrew Klopatsko proposed to a wealthy peasant girl, was rejected, shot at her, then at himself, killed neither, went to jail. Released three years later he discovered she was married, set her house afire, went back to prison. Released two years later, he discovered she was a widow, proposed, married...
When he found Adrienne again she was a rich widow, living a peaceful Protestant life. She found his beauty more fatal than ever. But Solal's eye was caught by her young friend, aristocratic Aude de Maussane, daughter of a French Senator. Solal impressed her father, became his secretary and won his permission to marry Aude-when in shuffled a grotesque delegation from Cephalonia and ruined everything. But only momentarily: at Aude's wedding with one of her own kind Solal dashed up and carried...