Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian is the widow of George Chase Christian '95, who died in 1919 and for whom the scholarships will be named. Mr. Christian was a prominent Minneapolis manufacturer, had been president of the Harvard Club of Minnesota, and was always actively interested in Harvard affairs...
...streaming yellow dress gripping the mane of a bolting horse. The Haunted House is a dilapidated structure, surrounded by grim and groping trees, with all the windows on the third floor boarded up except one from which a wildly gesticulating woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair. Doris Lee's brush is too kinetic to be good at still life...
...posts at Kiana and Kotzebue, started a chain of their own. Brother Boris enlisted in the U. S. Army in Wartime, thereby gained U. S. citizenship. After the War the Magids abandoned their post at Kiana and founded others along the coast. Sam Magids died in 1929, and his widow, known as Queen Bess in Nome, later joined Boris in the business...
...sudden death last week of M. Venizelos profoundly disturbed the ticklish balance of power in Athens between Venizelists and the Army which is seething with ambitions for a coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume the Greek Throne as the protégé of King George V and London bankers (TIME...
...Country Doctor" is definitely amusing and entertaining; the "Widow...