Word: widowing
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...four housewives were indeed something special-perhaps even formidable. They were Mrs. Theodore S. Chapman of Jerseyville, Ill., a widow, a successful farm operator and president-elect...
...seems safe enough until the Preacher comes to Cresap's Landing. In no time he woos and wins the widow Harper. John shows an animal distrust for this strange new father with the letters L-O-V-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and H-A-T-E on the left. Once the war of nerves is joined, Author Grubb piles horror on tension, chapter by chapter, till the Preacher meets an end as vicious as himself...
...Second Thought. In East Paterson, N.J., the Shopper carried this ad: FOR RENT WIDOW WOULD LIKE TO SHARE APARTMENT WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, MIDDLEAGED. OR GENTLEMAN WITH REFERENCES...
Died. Princess Margarethe of Hesse, 81, sister of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers...
...play concerns a movie to be made about a heroic expedition that cost Explorer Christian Starcross and his men their lives. At odds over the movie project are Starcross' widow (Eva Le Gallienne) and his former mistress (Mary Astor). Their feuding reveals that Star-cross himself was an unscrupulous egomaniac who had knowingly set forth on a phony quest. But his devoted widow insists that the movie be made anyhow -arguing that, in an era of despair, a heroic legend born of a lie counts for more than the actual truth...