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...Widow's Weeds. In Paris, finally, she met the man she wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart...
Maud Gonne wore widow's weeds for MacBride, but also for Ireland. She did not agree with Eamon de Valera's government. She wrote her memoirs, and was outraged when Communist organizers came to Ireland in 1930 and "one young puppy had the cheek to tell me they had come to teach us how to fight." Bedridden but still a political force, she backed her son, Sean MacBride, and his Republican Party in a successful campaign against De Valera in 1948, but when she went to the polls, one who saw her cried: "That woman is exactly like...
...succeeded. Published by Mark Twain's firm, Grant's memoirs became a runaway bestseller, eventually netted his widow $450,000-one of the highest royalty figures that any one book had ever earned...
...educator-baiting National Council for American Education and the defunct American Patriots, Inc. (listed as "subversive" by the U.S. Attorney General), who fought the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939 on the ground that Frankfurter was a Jew; and Genevieve Egan Tillar, sixtyish, widow of millionaire Texas Oilman Benjamin J. Tillar; in Washington...
...less than epic story that involves an assortment of fictional shipboard characters: a middle-aged couple (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck) fighting over the upbringing of their children; a collegian (Robert Wagner) in love with the daughter (Audrey Dalton); an unfrocked priest (Richard Basehart), a wealthy, wisecracking American widow (Thelma Ritter...