Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander O'Grady, 59, San Francisco attorney and politician; of a heart attack; in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif. Son of an engineer employed by owners of the famed "Big Bonanza" mine, he was an intimate boyhood friend of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. The late Mrs. John William Mackay, widow of the Comstock Lode tycoon, was his godmother...
Only perfectly popular person in the hotel was middle-aged Widow Sarah Shelbourne. Always bouncingly, sensibly cheery, she seemed to be without a care in the world. In the privacy of her bedroom you see her writing a letter to her daughter, with the news that the doctor has given her two months to live...
...year-old James Dowson had played his cards better he might have won Pamela Baynes, beautiful young widow. As it was he went back to his bottle; and Pamela, after being seduced by the hotel bad man, committed suicide...
...Mate Ernest Friend overboard. Sailors threw him a lifebuoy immediately. The ship luffed and signalled for help. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V heard the cry "Man Overboard" and hove to. But it was too late. Ernest Friend never reached the floating buoy, disappeared. He left behind a widow and four children. King George called off the day's racing and hurried back to the yellow-funneled Victoria & Albert from which Queen Mary had seen the tragedy. All the yachts at Cowes half-masted their flags...
...sporting blood, a race-track Satan, a ginmill Beelzebub; he has a bottle of red-eye liquor in his hand and is not stingy with his drinks. The Wayworn Traveler, the Pilgrim of Faith, the Troubled Soul, the Poor Blind Girl, the Pilgrim of Hope, the Widow and her Children and the Bedridden Woman all get past him safely. Walking up to St. Peter's throne, they sing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," "Bye and Bye I'm Gonna Lay Down My Heavy Load and other true songs, while the Devil jumps up & down waving...