Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from his own collection, "Hen Opp" died in 1932. Proceeds of last week's sale, occasioned by the death of Oppenheimer's widow, are estimated to be twice the amount the collector originally paid, will go to Sons Paul and Eric, less Christie...
...Arizona State Prison at Phoenix last week, for murdering a fellow cowboy, Frank Rascon was led into an airtight chamber, executed by cyanide gas. When the corpse was carried out, his widow embraced it, kissed the face and lips. Few hours later Mrs. Frank Rascon was hospitalized, seriously ill with cyanide poisoning...
...packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group of big oil companies for more than...
...Toussaint was a buxom Cajun widow with seven children, and well along in years (she was 28). She had not thought seriously of marrying again, but when a fine young fellow like Jean asked her, she said yes. On her wedding day, though it went much against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room...
...North. He was self-seeking and rude on principle in his recoil from the affected gallantry he saw all around him. When the War broke he became a blockade runner and made money with his unpatriotic speculations. But Scarlett married Melanie's brother for spite, was a widow two months later, moved to Atlanta to be with Melanie, who had married the man they both loved...