Word: widowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tall man (6 feet 2 inches), but not particularly handsome, Jefferson married relatively late, at 28. his wife, lovely, musical Martha Wayles Skelton, was the widow of his college friend Bathurst Skelton. According to the family story ?he himself is reticent about his private life?Jefferson apparently misjudged the traveling time and arrived with his new bride at Monticello in the snow late one night. Only a one-room building for his use was completed at the tune, and the servants had all gone to bed, leaving no fires burning. Despite that inauspicious beginning, the Jeffersons appear unusually contented...
...season's most popular styles are the "drowned chicken," "chest of drawers," "mad dog" and "sportsman in the bush." Topical motifs are especially prized; one called "a I'inoculation "hails the controversial new treatment for the small pox. In an effort to reconcile propriety with fashion, a widow will occasionally sport a model of her dead husband's tomb upon her head...
Women's presence in the newspapers is not restricted to the advertisements. At least ten American newspapers have been published by women. From 1767 until her death last year at age 55, Anne Catherine Green, widow of Printer Jonas Green, by whom she bore 14 children, served as printer to the province of Maryland and publisher of its first newspaper, the Maryland Gazette. The province's second newspaper, the Maryland Journal, is also published by a woman: Mary Katherine Goddard. In addition to her editorial work, the indefatigable Miss Goddard, 38, manages Baltimore's busiest printing firm...
...gets $55,000 a year for life. Eleven other women shared in Getty's largesse, including a German countess, a French art dealer, Getty's Nicaraguan companion Rosabella Burch (she got $82,625 in Getty stock) and Lady Ursula d'Abo, a merry London widow who acted as hostess at his parties ($165,250 in stock). The big winner, with $826,250 in stock plus $1,167 a month, was Penelope Ann Kitson, 53, a decorator who had known Getty since the 1950s but refused to marry him, said her ex-husband, because "she was not prepared...
...conducted by John Lanch-berry, sounds like a serious ensemble rather than the pickup assortment that often accompanies dance. The Australians are a very handsome company. The girls are among the prettiest dancers around; the men are tall and athletic. John Meehan, who plays Count Danilo, the rich widow's reluctant lover, is positively coltish. He carries off the evening with blithe bravado, swinging Dame Margot around in reckless waltzes or flinging her high with one-arm lifts. Meehan will never be the partner Help mann was, but he embodies the insouciance that is the production's most...