Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing...
...Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment campaign would be necessary if it was to continue. One of its two great patrons died six years ago-Mrs. Mary Emery. The other was Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, widow of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, who felt unable to carry the annual deficit alone. But after her death last February (TIME. Feb. 9) it was found that the Taft estate left provision for paying the Zoo deficit which now includes that of the Opera (formerly...
...22nd Annual Convention of Rotary International. About 50 of the visitors pranced about the capital in green Tyrolese kneepants, short jackets, feather-peaked hats. Composer Lehar, who still resides in Vienna, is the conductor-mem-ber of Vienna's Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each Rotary club admits only one representative of each profession; and whereas in India and the Malay Peninsula the British lawyer and native lawyer practice in different courts...
...villa high above St. Moritz in Switzerland, a pale and haggard Toscanini was last week recovering from Fascist buffets. Soon he would go to Wahnfried ("Dream-Peace"), the villa Richard Wagner built at Bayreuth. There, as guest of Frau Winifred Wagner (widow of the late Siegfried and director of Bayreuth affairs), he was to begin rehearsals for the opening concert of the summer festival. Because his art demanded tranquillity, he wished no further discussion of the incident. But Italy was behind him; at last the world could view his case whole...
Engaged. Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, permanent undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, likely candidate for Ambassador to the U. S. some day (he prepared all for Ramsay MacDonald's U. S. visit), widower son-in-law of General William Christian Heppenheimer of Jersey City; and Lady Barclay, widow of Sir Colville Barclay, onetime British Minister at Budapest...