Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago old Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone, widow of the man for whom Chicago's expensive Blackstone Hotel was named, was taken with an announcement that for the first time a Negro would be soloist with the Chicago Symphony. Old Mrs. Blackstone investigated. The Negro, 27, was the son of a butler who had served her for 44 years. He had earned his Symphonic engagement through a contest conducted by the Society of American Musicians. Old Mrs. Blackstone took a box for George Garner's concert, invited her butler to sit with...
Last week Tenor George Garner was the first recitalist of the season to sell out the great Civic Opera House. Widow Blackstone is dead, her musty old mansion demolished. But thanks to her and rich Mrs. Jacob R. Custer, young Garner has had six years' study abroad. Last week, singing for the benefit of unemployed Negroes, he proved that he had made much of his opportunities. He has acquired an Oxford accent, learned better how to manage a voice that is strong, smooth, mellow...
Arliss, whose long-range eavesdroppings have previously prompted him to perform other sly philanthropies, releases her. When the picture ends he is strumming on an organ and apparently contemplating matrimony with a sympathetic widow (Violet Heming...
MacDonald, in a London nursing home, following an operation for glaucoma; Mayor James John Walker of Manhattan, of a bronchial cold and low blood pressure; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, in Lincoln, of injuries suffered when he slipped on an icy pavement; Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., critically, following an abdominal operation; John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in Clarksburg, W. Va., of bronchial pneumonia; Actress Dorothy Gish, 34, in Manhattan, of a nervous disorder...
Again Christofersen. Exactly 20 years ago the late Silas Christofersen, early dare-devil flyer of the West, flew a flimsy home-made plane off the roof of Portland, Ore.'s Multonomah Hotel. Last week his widow left Seattle to salvage by plane a fur ship abandoned off Point Barrow, Alaska...