Word: widowing
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...Americans," Franz Lehar once complained, "know me only as the creator of The Merry Widow...
...well they knew The Merry Widow! In 1907, the Widow's gay Viennese charm had captured Broadway. Merry Widow waltzes and Merry Widow hats swept the U.S. And the U.S. has pretty well stayed swept ever since...
...Widow's Lot. At 64, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has become, perhaps, the best-known woman in the world. Three years after her husband's death, she has reversed the usual lot of presidents' widows by gaining measurably in stature and prestige. She is a unique combination of Citizeness Fix-it and great lady. Today hers is the best-known among the many well-known names at the United Nations. She is the only U.S. delegate who has been named to every Assembly. She has been voted the most popular living American in a magazine poll, proposed...
...1880s, Harold Bauer heard almost all the great pianists of the day. He saw the ailing Abbé Liszt at one of his last public appearances; he heard Paderewski's London debut. He remembers shaggy Anton Rubinstein, the elegant Hans von Bülow, and the widow Clara Schumann bent so low over the keys that her nose almost touched her hands...
...short acquaintance and after two calls, he had proposed to Widow Martha Custis, yet, engaged to her, he could still write to his best friend's wife: "You have drawn me, dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...