Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Denhardt was divorced by his wife of 28 years. Last June he met Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, reputed the most beautiful woman in two counties (Oldham and Henry). A respectable widow of 40 who was running her late husband's laundry business in La Grange, Mrs. Taylor soon became the General's dearest friend...
...Treasury is to move most of its gold bullion, and Britain's equally obscure Fort Belvedere, where Edward VIII goes for week ends with his U. S. friend, Mrs. Simpson. For scientifically-minded readers, LIFE depicted, with explicit captions, the cannibal romance of the famed Black Widow spider, who devours her mate when done with...
...famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital of The Raven is interrupted, inevitably, by news of his child wife's death. In 1849 he visits Elmira, then a widow, but his attempt at a reunion fails because she believes he wants to start an ill-tempered magazine with her money. From beginning to end of the last scene, Actor Hull is required to utter a delirious monolog while he heaves and writhes on his deathbed and a nurse reads from...
...half-uncles and the half-aunt of the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman of Milwaukee will probably be presented for decision this week. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin is expected to hear the case of the Nieman bequest, appealed from the Milwaukee County Court, in which the widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the "Milwaukee Journal" and crusading journalist of the last half century, left Harvard an estate of approximately five million dollars to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism...
...will was admitted to probate in the county court by Judge Michael S. Sheridan after being contested by distant relatives of the late journalist's widow upon the traditional grounds that Mrs. Nieman was "not of sound mind and had not sufficient mentality to make a will", and that "undue influence upon her was exercised by persons or person unknown". Although the wielder of this influence was already spoken of as "unknown", the will-breakers were specific in exonnerating the President and Fellows of any attempt to obtain from the dying Mrs. Nieman the totally unexpected and apparently illogical gift...