Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term on the State supreme court, helped Leland Stanford build the Central Pacific Railroad, filled his brick mansion and adjacent gallery in Sacramento with an extraordinary mess of stuffed birds, shells and European art acquired in Dresden and Paris on his one trip abroad. Ten years later his widow gave the treasures and the gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion and for 50 years faithfully mowed the grass on the Crocker lawn. Curator of the gallery during all that time was an easy-going character named William Franklin Jackson, who let old Judge Crocker...
Died. Helen Maud Holt, Lady Tree, 72, actress, widow of the late, great actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; after an operation; in London...
...Still drawing Government pensions from the War of 1812 are Mrs. Caroline King, 88, East Aurora, N. Y. widow, and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 80, of Independence, Ore. who was. pensioned as a helpless child because of blindness...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...
...idlers called the Galère, who assemble in Paris, London. Venice and New York, indulge in easy, intermittent love affairs, drive fast cars, make scandals for the tabloids by being interviewed in crowded beds, and generally delight in their reputations for wickedness. A pale, pretty English War widow, Bianca does not really belong with them. She observes them first with detached interest, later plays their game with ironic humor, tries unsuccessfully to prevent their irresponsibility from climaxing in tragedy...