Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow from Monte Carlo," with Dolores Del Rio and Warren William, there is much conniving and excited scheming concerning a Duchess (Dolores) who wants to get away from her stiff-necked relatives and friend (Colin Clive) to whom she is engaged. Warren William, who kisses her twice before he has met her, wins the duchess by helping her out of her pickle. It is all very amusing, with good dialogue and a decent enough rehash of the old Idle Rich-Idle Nobility plot sequence to command interest. Warren Hymer is good as an American gangster who steals back a letter...
Sedate maiden ladies! Perhaps Mr. Caffrey was seeking the spacious home of some wealthy widow wherein he might rest his weary bones. But our sedate maiden ladies tend to their own knitting and ARE particular with whom they associate...
...Conservative Women's Society, the wife of Britain's Foreign Minister declared: "I find myself with a husband who is working 16 hours a day. A lull in all the hurly-burly of international politics would be very welcome to me for it has made a diplomacy widow...
Forced to forego her own honeymoon twelve years ago because of her husband's first political campaign, Mrs. Eden was a diplomacy widow again last week at her sister's wedding to Dr. Bathhurst Norman in Yorkshire. Captain Eden had spent a hectic week-end in Britain but was forced to entrain for Geneva on the very morning of the wedding. It was increasingly evident to newshawks, however, that if diplomacy had made a widow out of Mrs. Eden. Benito Mussolini had made a monkey out of her husband...
Colorado Springs' No. 1 philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...