Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only new woman to gain admission to Congress was Effie Gene Locke Wingo, widow of Representative Otis Theodore Wingo, Arkansas Democrat, who died during the campaign. As a double mark of chivalry both parties gave Widow Wingo their nominations...
...Olga Mead, widow of the late great Architect William Rutherford Mead (McKim, Mead & White) gave Benito Mussolini 10,000 lire ($500) in gratitude for his aid in transporting the body of her husband to Rome for burial. Cyril Clemens, cousin of Mark Twain and president of the Mark Twain Society of Webster Groves, Mo., gave him as token of esteem the society's gold medal, inscribed: Mussolini-Great Educator...
...threw that?....who threw, it, I ask you?....right down my shirtfront crabmeat cocktail....somebody's going to get pasted....Ohoooo, did I?....I always said those forks were too small....well, happy days....and a great pleasure I'm sure.... hey, waiter....POP....Rheims....Epernay....hmmmm, the Widow Cliquot....POP....and very nice too, .... and how do you do Mrs. Astor.... POP....and he said that if we'd take two cases....oh, the Michigans is it? ....football? and all this time me thinking it was hockey....oh, well it all just goes to show one must keep abreast...
...William James Conners, 36, widow of the hard-bitten Buffalo brewer and steamship operator who bought the Buffalo Enquirer "because everybody roasts me and now I want to heat a pan" (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929), last week heeded a talmudic apothegm which patriarchal Nathan Straus once telegraphed her late husband. Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract...
Months ago a Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran of Holyoke, Mass. and one William Wilbur J. Cooke of Philadelphia arrived in Boston, put up at the Ritz-Carlton. Mr. Cooke is chiefly famed for having once married the widow of John S. Huyler (chocolates). Mrs. Huyler-Cooke later advertised in the public prints that she was no longer responsible for the debts of William Wilbur J. Cooke...