Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany a month late, and in Berlin, rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U. S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine-gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications. In the midst of spring fervor, Nazi health authorities publicized an unbelievable figure: 75% of all young men between 20 and 29, they said, proved, when examined for military purposes...
...Worried musical observers report that Adolf Hitler is forsaking Wagner for such tuneful fluffiness as Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
Died. Mrs. Lilian Janet Morley, 73; after long illness; in Baltimore. Widow of Johns Hopkins Professor Frank Morley, she was the mother of three Rhodes Scholars: wambling Litterateur Christopher Darlington (Saturday Review of Literature); Felix Muskett, editor of the Washington Post; Frank Vigor, member of the London publishing house, Faber & Faber...
Formerly a tutor under "Widow" Nolan, Sargent expressed interest in the CRIMSON'S camgaign, offering a four-point program for the University. Lecture notes should be changed every ten years, a modern type of examination should be given, examinations should be set and graded by someone other than the professor in charge of the course, and short reviews should be given prior to examinations...
...have protested against sending men under 40 or over 40 to fight in the next war, that there may be no dearth of fathers. Excellent! Let the next war be won by women past 45, that absolutely useless class! Having been for the last decade a widow in this group, fighting at the front would be a welcome diversion...