Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provide more or less the same kind of music at 35?, Variety records by Frank Marks will soon be available. Long an arranger for radio bands. Mr. Marks, too, will make eccentric, narrative dance tunes under such .titles as Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve, Talking Turkey to a Greek. Also planned is a three-part suite concerned with Edward VIII's love for Mrs. Simpson called Canterbury Tales...
Since Colonel Green's widow could find no executed will, she sent to Texas a lawyer who asked for her appointment as administratrix of the estate at a $1,000,000 fee. Since Colonel Green was a Texan to Texans, this request was granted in ten minutes...
...jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side as if his benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well-set-up rather masculine old ladies," and the widow of a Governor-General. Edward is a distinguished old-bachelor scholar. The young people look at the old; the old, who such a short time ago were young, try to remember but find it easier to look at their successors. Before they know it the dawn is in the sky. the party...
...convinced that it is infallibly salutary. So he goes ahead and tries it anyway, and the man dies. Death was the result of an embolism, and the serum had nothing to do with it, but the young doctor doesn't know that. When the dead man's widow accuses him of murder, and all the newspapers more or loss take up her ery, he is made acutely conscious of the burden of his responsibility...
...Babson is a nice gentle man. He receives great publicity and has a large following but he has no academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...