Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Linders asked the Cook County Court for permission legally to adopt Little Joe. Alarmed. Widow Julian hurried to Big Joe, told him what might happen to Little Joe. Announced Widow Julian...
Though white, Widow Rose Julian lived on the fringe of Chicago's "Black Belt." As her lover she took Joseph A. Murphy, also white. Seven months ago she bore a son. He had red hair. She named him Little Joe, after his father. Big Joe got very angry. He swore Little Joe was not his. Present was Mary Linder. Mary was black. Mary's husband, Willie, was a Negro contractor at 5222 South La Salle St. Widow Julian put white Little Joe into Mary's black hands, told her to take him away, care...
Died. Mrs. Flavia Camp Canfield, 86, widow of the late James Hulme Canfield (onetime president of Ohio State University), mother of Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher (The Bent Twig, The Brimming Cup, Her Son's Wife); at her country home near Arlington...
...Maria Christina, Queen of Spain, sat down at a table in a Biarritz café. A headwaiter frothed up, was sorry but this table was reserved for the Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady...
...known. Payne spoke freely, elaborately of a dozen or more, skipped lightly over the name of Mrs. Verona Thompson, his former private secretary, "so plain and ordinary no one would look at her." Catching the scent, Howe and MacDonald immediately sought Mrs. Thompson, found her to be an attractive widow, wrung from her an admission that Payne had promised to run off with her after doing away with his wife...