Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler's favorite stage entertainments is Franz Lehar's light opera, The Merry Widow. Last week in Munich the Fuhrer decided that he would like The Merry Widow a little merrier. A telegram was sent to Cannes where lissome, long-limbed Marion Daniels was doing an acrobatic tap dance turn at the Casino. A special plane followed, rushed the blonde 19-year-old Californian to Munich's Gärtnerplatz Theatre where she gave a few new twists and taps to The Merry Widow's, Viennese waltzes...
...hrer Hitler had caught her acrobatic act two weeks before in Munich, liked it so well that he sent her a bouquet of lilacs and carnations. Last week her Merry Widow so pleased the Führer & party that their prolonged applause almost stopped the show. After the performance, the cast and Dancer Daniels put on a special act for Herren Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and guests at a Munich night club...
...last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...
...wrote Woodrow Wilson's widow recently in the Satevepost, describing the Wilsons' first return from the Peace Conference in February 1919. In next week's installment, Widow Wilson relates how, when she saw her husband being crucified on his Treaty of Versailles and Covenant of the League, she suggested that his doctor make him resign in favor of Vice President Marshall...
...days after Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter, young Hay started a diary, hastily scrawled late at night, the most immature and most vivid writing he ever did. Much of the present selection was omitted from the privately printed edition of Hay's letters and diary published by his widow...