Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Lammot du Pont, 50, president of I. E. du Pont de Nemours & Co., board chairman of General Motors, father of seven children, and Mrs. Carolene Hynson Stollenwerck. widow of E. Carroll Stollenwerck of Baltimore; at Wilmington...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...
Lady Doyle stood up. The clairvoyant's eyes moved as though accompanying a person who was approaching her. "He is wearing evening clothes," she murmured. She inclined her head to listen. A silent moment. Her head jerked up. She stared at Lady Doyle, shivered, ran to the widow, whispered...
Married. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, 68, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church; and Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, widow of the late Mormon Bishop Edwin S. Sheets; in the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City. Fortnight ago Senator Smoot declared: "I'll marry no woman I haven't asked to marry me and I haven't asked any woman to marry me. I'll not say I'm going to Utah to marry and I'll not say I'm not going to Utah...
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...