Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Found floating face-down in Long Island Sound off a beach at Larchmont, N. Y. was Mrs. Ada Alden, 79, poet, widow of Editor Henry Mills Alden of Harper's mother-in-law of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer, who dedicated "Trees" to her. Pulled ashore, revived in ten minutes, chipper Mrs. Alden wrote a 35-line poem about her experience, promised to keep up her daily swims...
JOSEPH CONRAD AND HIS CIRCLE-Jessie Conrad-Button ($3.75). A long study, principally devoted to the difficulties of married life with a stern and tormented writer, by Conrad's widow...
...first October stock-market crash in 1929, Good Humors were being sold in Cleveland and Chicago by a syndicate which bought out Inventor Burt's widow. On the day after the crash Speculator Meehan took $500,000 out of the market, bought into the syndicate...
...Rosa Christoph, maid for the last seven years in the Rine household: the income of a $100,000 trust fund. The income of a $150,000 fund, left to Mrs. Rine, will also go to Maid Christoph, 25, if Mrs. Rine should die first. Explained the widow: "She was more than a maid...
...Wolfe's way and the Widow...