Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Vera, Countess of Cathcart, fortyish, divorced wife of the late George Cathcart, 5th Earl of Cathcart, previously Vera Fraser of Cape Town, later the widow of Capt. de Grey Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards; and Sir Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart's son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of "moral turpitude." Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl...
...Federal District Court at St. Paul last week rang to the sound of big figures, big names. A widow filed suit against Inland Steel Co., Great Northern Railway Co. for patent infringement, filed similar suits against U. S. Steel Corp. and its subsidiaries Carnegie Steel Co., U. S. Steel Products Co. Five hundred million dollars -a half-billion-is the total of her claims, but the figure's reverberations seemed to have a hollow ring...
...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman's name, over whose portal will blaze: "No Women Admitted"; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow...
Meanwhile, sandwiched in between the serious affairs that transpire above, the wildest farce is enacted on "The Floor Below." There a baroque, gold-turbaned widow (Lilian Braithwaite) with an Elinor Glynt in her eye, is trying to keep her daughter from getting married pending her own nuptials. The substance of this vaudeville skit is slim but Playwright Novello patiently works over it until, like the breakfast bacon & eggs, both tales come out about even. A good deal of the action in the Kennard flat upstairs is valid and affecting, in spite of its antiquated situation. And some of the comedy...