Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them in a plain black dress and widow's cap, to Germany where the Crown Prince, father of the Kaiser of Doom, gave a glittering court reception more to their liking...
...middle-aged New Englander goes to Palm Beach to visit the widow of his millionaire employer. He finds her changed for the worse, her children fiendish. She wants him to marry her, to protect her from them and from her own bad habits. Vengefully he agrees...
Familiar to U. S. aviation enthusiasts is the collection of aerial warfare photographs exhibited the past three years by a Mrs. Gladys Cockburn-Lange, reputedly the remarried widow of a British Royal Flying Corps officer shot down in France. The pictures, some 60 in all, are amazing views of British and German planes in close combat. A few show such spectacular views as two planes colliding in midair; a German pilot falling from his flaming plane; most extraordinary of all, a British plane losing its wings as its pilot looped in exuberance over a victory...
...officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall. On Christmas Eve they buried him at sea. Captain Trant read the service and they slid his body over the rail wrapped in the Union Jack. Passengers subscribed a $250 purse for his widow and children. The Majestic made New York harbor 24 hours late. In January 1929 the Majestic shipped another great wave which smashed in the forward hatches for three decks down. That time it was one of the galley cooks who was killed. Five seamen were injured...
...Chicago's Probate Court it was discovered that an old will of the late Utilities Magnate Clement Studebaker Jr., which left $5,000 to his longtime chauffeur Peter Peterson, had been filed by mistake. A later will left the entire estate of some $2,000,000 to the widow, Mrs. Alice Rhawn Studebaker. Chauffeur Peterson went home, shot & killed his wife, his 20-year-old daughter, himself...