Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclines before the saddened widow, who this morning saw the closed eyes of her husband who also fell on the field of honor...
...facts he had none. He quoted Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate, Byron, Bryan and a man named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate...
...there have been daily services in Bethlehem Chapel which is one of three, in sturdy Norman architecture, burrowed among piers which will some day bear the weight of the 262-ft. central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow had him interred in the Episcopal pile. George Dewey, Henry Vaughan (Cathedral architect), Bishop Satterlee and his successor the late Bishop Alfred Harding are in the chapels, in handsome sarcophagi. Last person to be buried there was Counselor Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press. The delicate matter of arranging interments...
...operated on a Mrs. Thompson, a widow, aged 42, who had an enormous ovarian tumor. . . . The great mass of tumor filled a sizable wash tub, close by the rude table on which the patient lay in her poor dwelling. The tapping of the sacculi and the bleeding caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales...
...Angeles, three physicians certified as dead last week John Guelph, 71, who claimed to be "the legitimate eldest son of King Edward VII." "Nonsense" scoffed the Widow Gueiph, "John's not dead-I don't care what the doctors say! He's been in this same condition five times before-four times in India and once here in California. He'll revive in a few days...