Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer life of the five Brothers Pratt at Glen Cove, L. I. Around the rim of a water-skirted tract of 1,000 acres they have their homes-George at "Killenworth," Charles at "Seamoor," Harold at "Welwyn," Herbert at "The Braes," Frederic in Dosoris Lane. Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of Brother John, lives at "Manor House." Between them they have the yachts Carola, Dodger III, Whisper, Tuna. In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen...
Remarked Agent Moncure's widow: "If Dry-voting, Wet-living Congressmen could be made to realize conditions as they are in the greatest war of all times . . . I'd face my joyless future with calm resignation...
Illinois politics, intraparty and interparty, divide between industrial wet Chicago and agricultural dry Down-State, win Down-State votes, to defeat Senator Charles Samuel Deneen for the Republican senatorial nomination in next April's primary election, Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick, Mark Hanna's daughter, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, set out last week none too confident of success...
Fifteen months ago, in a remote Italian mountain village, death came to famed U. S. Landscape Painter Arthur B. Davies. Last week, in Congers, N. Y., his widow, Dr. Virginia M. Davies, selected 61 of some 200 uncompleted paintings which had been found in his Manhattan studio, caused them to be burned because she did not consider them "representative." The rest, because they "conveyed his quality," she preserved for future sale. Of some 2,500 drawings and sketches several hundred will be presented in sets of ten or twenty to scattered U. S. museums. Undoubtedly Widow Davies built an expensive...
...student has assimilated the lectures or the reading, or what his especial capabilities or difficulties in the course are. On the other hand, they object to the student correlating his knowledge at a tutoring school and ask questions designed to founder the student who has placed reliance in the Widow, sinking many self-prepared students in the same boat. In doing so, the examiner usually limits himself to esoteric subjects or is compelled to ask tricky questions, as the tutoring bureau covers the more obvious and more important points...