Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow, however, did not forget his idea. For years she pondered it, conferring at times with Dr. Chant. Finally announcement was made of a gift of $500,000. Together Widow Dunlap and Astronomer Chant looked over the ground near Toronto, found a suitable site on a ridge nine miles from the city. Her son laid a cornerstone. A graceful administration building went up, with three housings for small telescopes on the roof. Fifty yards away a great telescope was installed in a circular building topped by a gleaming copper-clad dome...
...TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), little cash. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. paid less than $150 for one of his pictures (see p. 33). Kane loved Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh was proud of him. Seven years after his art career had been established, he died at 74 of tuberculosis, leaving his widow about $5,000 in cash and a pile of pictures that are now worth as high as $1,500 apiece...
...York City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...
...other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs, kissing bugs, bumblebees and poisonous Central American centipedes. Once he added a flair by eating a black widow spider alive...
...Named Iphigenie for her mother, Iphigenia Wise Ochs, who has always been called Effie. Widow Effie is the daughter of the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism in the U. S. He once wrote a novel based on Greek mythology in which Iphigenia (''Great Princess") is a noble character...