Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard received $100,000 in the will of Elizabeth R. Stevens of Swansea, Mass., which was offered for probate in Taunton yesterday. Mrs. Stevens, widow of Frank S. Stevens, banker, manufacturer, and "forty-niner", died at Swansea on February 4. Bequests were also made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mt. Holyoke College, and Wellesley College...
...became a sort of tramp. He tried his fortune in mining camps, in New York buoket shops, in the Chicago grain market. He even haunted, as his chaste Cambridge biographer puts it, "sections of Philadelphia which did him no good." After the death of James Smith his widow offered to let bygones be bygones. 'Pifex the playboy came back to St. Louis...
...contended that an excess profit tax of some $6,592 was unfair, sued for its return on the grounds that royalties of more than $100,000 (received in a single year) were from records made in 1917 (TIME, Jan. 16, 1928). The other favored Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of the late great tenor, a brother, Giovanni Caruso, Rudolfo and Enrico Jr., natural sons, as against Gloria, 10-year-old legitimate daughter. New Jersey's Chancellor Edwin R. Walker had awarded Gloria two-thirds of her father's royalties which amount even now to some...
Died. Jane Gibson ("The Pig Woman"), 56, eccentric prosecution witness of the famed Hall-Mills murder case; in Jersey City, N. J.; of cancer. A report that she had been telegraphed forgiveness for her damaging testimony during the trial by Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered New Brunswick, N. J. pastor, was denied by Mrs. Hall at the Harbor Sanitarium, Manhattan, where she is recuperating from an operation...
...sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett...