Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to the Lido to the "ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace" where he was staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this may be explained by the fact that it was after one o'clock when he arrived...
...Lahore, India, the Widow Khurshaid fell in love with a Moslem boy who quarreled with her, cut off her nose. In court Widow Khurshaid said she had cut off her own nose. Afterward she gave the boy about 4,000 rupees, offered to marry him. When he refused her, she got him drunk, tied him to his cot, cut off his nose. In court, she pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor...
...edition or in one of the European editions smuggled into the U. S., this is the first "authorized abridged" version. It is authorized by Lawrence's widow, would never have been permitted by Lawrence himself. For the book, now made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version...
...College?" is a quaint old question but lately the London Evening Standard played a polite variation on it, posing the problem, of a puzzled lady who said, "I am a widow of limited means, with a son and a daughter, both of average intellectual ability or better. I can send only one to college. Which shall I send...
...afterward that she was the only woman to see Dr. Gorgulov lose his head. She told how Gorgulov, his hands and feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...