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Word: widowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since in the French mind Love is the opposite of Death, the Widow Joffre commissioned Architect Henri Laffaillée to build a Temple of Love, suggested that he copy the one at Versailles of which amorous French kings made such good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Joffre's Bones | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...wish," said the Widow Joffre, "to be buried beside my husband when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Joffre's Bones | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...established the first round-the-world passenger-freight service on a regular schedule. Many of his maritime adventures have been idealized in the "Cappy Ricks" stories by Capt. Dollar's fellow Californian Peter B. Kyne. Outstanding Dollar characteristics included extreme frugality, shrewdness, religious devotion. Surviving him are his widow, Margaret Proudfoot Dollar, and three sons, Alexander Melville Dollar, 54, Robert Stanley Dollar, 50, John Harold Dollar, 44. Robert Stanley Dollar has long been president of Dollar Steamship Lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Armstrong takes bribe money because his wife is going to have a baby. When Armstrong tries to drive the car out of the district to leave the bank-robbers a clear field, Hopton forces him to drive back, fight it out, get killed. Hopton is free to court the widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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