Word: widowing
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...woman," says an old Hindu maxim, "there is no god on earth other than her man." The most extreme form of this belief was the custom dictating that the widow fling herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Enlightened British rule put a legal end to the practice of suttee (widow suicide), but the widow's lot has remained a poor one. Under Hindu laws, widows are not permitted to wear jewelry, bright clothing, makeup. They cannot attend wedding or birthday celebrations. Under strict laws of inheritance dating back 3,000 years, a Hindu's property...
...nearly three years the widow of topflight Gestapoman Reinhardt ("the Hangman") Heydrich (see BOOKS), neatly assassinated by the Czech underground in 1942, has collected a $46-a-month pension from the West German government. Frau Heydrich's stipend is justified on the ground that her husband was killed in enemy action. Last week a provincial court was mulling a government suit that would end her pension...
Died. Irene Langhorne Gibson, 83, the "Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
...between the church and their frailties, the church would go empty. The archbishop saw the point at once, and sent them a new cure who could put away wine with the best of them. It is true that when Tistin, the town's unemployed handy man, got two widows with child, things seemed, even for Clochemerle, to have reached a sorry pass. But the village women were willing to concede that a widow's life was not much fun, and that once the children were baptized they would be as good Christians as any. As for Tistin-well...
...Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing on," "Forearms, hair on," "Widow, making friends and having fun" and "Scurvy, disease of sailors." The point of going to so much trouble is also, as even the scurviest sailor will suspect, to be found in the index, under the heading: "Husband: see also...