Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-six-year-old Harold Fowler McCormick, millionaire head of the Chicago harvester clan, has recently been seriously ill with bronchopneumonia. Last week attorneys for Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby, Kansas City widow who is suing him for $2,000,000 (breach of promise), asked that the trial date be advanced. Reason: because of a crowded court calendar, the plaintiff saw "grave danger" that the defendant might not live until the case is reached...
...Paris, a ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...
...professor is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs. George C. Eaton of Belmont, and Mrs. W. J. R. Taylor of Concord; and a sister, Miss Mary L. Sauveur, of Cambridge...
...widow, unencumbered, Protestant, well educated, and world traveled. I am healthy, trim, energetic and alert...
...story deals with the private life of Victoria the woman rather than with the public acts of Victoria the Queen; it consists of ten scenes showing her as the young girl, the possessive wife, and the bereaved widow. Notable is the fact that, although many of the greatest personages of the period pass in review, save for the characters of Prince Albert and Victoria herself, few of them appear on the stage for more than a single scene; yet their contribution to the leading roles is invaluable and their impression on the audience lasting...