Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who offered fowl roosts too high for careful Calvin Coolidge was rich Mrs. John B. Henderson, Washington socialite, nonagenarian widow of a Senator from Missouri, who has seen all Presidents from Lincoln to Hoover. Long has she labored to build up Washington's Meridian Hill district into a paradise of embassies and official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating...
...spectacular gesture. Shortly before his death in 1926, and in anticipation of heavy inheritance taxes ("death duties"), Sir Robert moved their home to the Isle of Jersey whose inhabitants are generally exempt from such taxes. In a protracted legal wrangle the Government tried to collect the taxes from the widow. Adjudged insane, Lady Houston engaged a staff of alienists to prove the contrary. Then one day she lunched with Winston Churchill (then Chancellor of the Exchequer) and handed him a check for ?1,500,000-the amount of the taxes...
Last Armour. Since the big white Rolls-Royce of J. Ogden Armour disappeared from the boulevards of Chicago, and his fortunes crashed and he died in London, the cycle of his family has swung low, then started up again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery...
...doughboy, sailor, anarchist, con man, all-time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted to try everything at least once. '"Everything...
...education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through the halos of its many Saints, he watches Bluebooks and blaming youth ruffie the innocuous desuetude of Memorial Hall. In both new and old, he sees halfbaked meats and widow's weeds coldly furnishing the Examination table. It is not remarkable that he looks forward with a whitening eye to the dreary 1,252,800 seconds that remain before the first lecture of 1931. Memories are bled by time, even that one bloodstained memory of the time be filled three...