Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week reporters singled out the doyenne of them all, Widow Agnes Kimer of St. Charles. Thirty-one years ago Mrs. Kimer went to her first Fair in a wagon. To her Grand Avenue tent she now goes in an automobile like the rest, but she is still sure that there is nothing like the Iowa State Fair. The nearest thing to it she ever saw was the Century of Progress two years ago. "It was fine." she admitted. "I thought it was as good as the State Fair...
...activities he held his usual press conferences, grinned cheerfully at correspondents, told them nothing. In one day he thrice tossed off appropriate sentiments as he accepted credentials from new and old diplomats. Nor was he too hurried to sign a letter of birthday congratulations to the 98-year-old widow of Poet Thomas Buchanan Read, author of "Sheridan's Ride...
...Frankfurter Zeitung was generally rated among the four or five greatest newspapers in the world. Fortnight later Kurt Max Oswald Simon, 52, an able publisher without a country or a publication, arrived in Mamaroneck, N. Y. to marry Mrs. Therese Heilner Prince, a well-to-do U. S. widow of 66. Last week, having thoroughly prospected the odd and unfamiliar U. S. publishing scene, dapper, chunky little Dr. Simon picked a magazine to publish. His choice was the literate, unprofitable monthly Story, which in four years has attained the reputation of being 'the most distinguished short story magazine...
Dedicated "To Someone I Love," Mary Pickford's first novel tells the story of Coralee Dumont, golden-haired, silver-voiced little widow whose extraordinary run of good luck began when she was stranded in Paris one July...
...dashing Argentine millionaire-"although taller than they usually are." When she needed groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty little widow from California, "instantly answered her prayer? Was this grocer's clerk an angel in disguise...