Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini call upon her at her out-of-the-way little part-of-a-palace; to have him stay nearly an hour and quite unbend; to have him say gallant, flattering things and laugh his infectious laugh-such not long ago was the reward of a U. S. widow, Mrs. Henriette Tower Wurts, when she gave her sumptuous, ancient Roman gardens to the City of Rome and threw in $50,000 for perpetual upkeep. She received the double reward last week of an invitation to Edda Mussolini's wedding...
...hall outside Room No. 349 in the Royal Hotel. Several people seemed interested in doing away with Hero Harold Stromberg when suddenly comes the report of a revolver. Next scene occurs in the fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated to add to the play's veracity. Mr. Stromberg...
...women (average age, 65) will be provided with an officer to conduct them to the military cemeteries, a trained nurse and free medicines to guard their health. The free trip of two weeks abroad represents a cost to the U. S. of $840 for each mother or widow. To insure a high moral standard on the pilgrimage, the U. S. barred Gold Star mothers living out of wedlock during the War, veterans' widows who had since remarried...
...fact that requirements of and sort are distastefully out of step with Harvard's educational idea make the situation here peculiarly bad. If all education is self-education, how can it be possible to stuff a reading knowledge down unwilling throats, with translations available and cheap and the Widow available but expensive...
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $10) ?Tchaikovsky dedicated this symphony to Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, the wealthy widow of a railroad engineer, who for years supported him without ever meeting him. Conductor Mengelberg's touch is deft and powerful, far transcends any of his recent performances with Man- Manhattan's Philharmonic...