Word: widow
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Smith No Widow...
...issue: "Atlanta's Mrs. Mazie Smith, widow of Hoke Smith...
Closest friend of Frau Gustav Stresemann, widow of the late, great German Foreign Minister, is Frau Albert von Baligand. These two tolerably young, distinctively vivacious ladies ("Kate" and "Else") were recently the life of Berlin's staid, stodgy officialdom (a German Cabinet officer's wife is supposed to look like an unpainted, unpowdered laundress, and most do). Tongues wagged when, two years ago, Stresemann sent Dr. von Baligand, then director of the press bureau of the German Government, to Portugal as German Minister. It was thought that Diplomat von Baligand owed this spectacular promotion to his wife...
...buried with traditional Catholic rites for Royalty (similar rites were observed for the King of Spain's mother [TIME, Feb. 18, 1929]) may or may not have been a sinner but he died desperately poor. The expensive pageant in his honor was financed by an astute woman: Zita, widow of ill-starred Emperor Karl, mother of famed "Little Otto" who pretends to both the Imperial Austrian and the Royal Hungarian thrones (TIME...
...things, and though his references to other people are not guarded, their anonymity is so discreetly veiled that the reader is sometimes unable to decide what actually happened, and to whom. The history of his love affair with "Philine," however, seems clear enough in outline. "Philine" was a young widow with one child, living in Geneva. She met the attractive, not-too-middle-aged Professor Amiel at a party, wrote to him anonymously, met him privately, offered him her love. This, says Amiel, was not unheard-of in his life. He had received "five or six" declarations, had never made...