Sentences with phrase «wealthy widow of»

The pet project of Sarah Winchester, the wealthy widow of a firearms magnate, construction on this labyrinthine mansion lasted over 30 years (legend has it that she just kept adding rooms to confuse the ghosts of those hurt by her husband's profession).

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Within this legendary story hides more than 5,000 others — the story of the skinny orphan, the skeptical tax collector, the despised Samaritan, the curious fisherman, the struggling widow, the disdained prostitute, the wealthy mother, the angry zealot, the ostracized Canaanite, the banished leper, the suffering slave, the repentant sinner... and ultimately, the story of you and me.

«Greenleaf» is the story of a wealthy widowed farm - woman.

Jesus is not condemning the rich people for being wealthy, or for giving out of their wealth, nor is he praising the poor widow for giving her last two mites.

Together with a band of fraudsters he managed to empty the Nordea bank account of a very wealthy widow over the course of 13 days in the summer of 2010.

Net Worth: $ 11 billion Source of wealth: Apple, Disney Age: 48 Overall Rank: 28 The widow of legendary Apple cofounder Steve Jobs inherited a fortune after Jobs died in October 2011 that makes her the wealthiest woman in Silicon Valley.

While watching the Cadillacs, Leo meets Elaine Stalker (Faye Dunaway), the sexy widow of a wealthy mine owner, and the two strike up a romance, while Elaine's daughter Grace (Lili Taylor) wanders through her mother's home playing «Besame Mucho» on the accordion to her pet turtles.

A spoiled - rotten widow whose wealthy husband left her penniless, Dinah hasn't quite latched onto the concept of being at someone else's beck and call.

In 1991, Ivey returned to her Texas roots for NBC's Down Home, though she found more success playing wealthy widow B.J. Poteet on the final season of the long - running sitcom Designing Women (also NBC).

But in «Winchester,» Sarah's paranormal real - estate fetishism is more than a wealthy widow's eccentricity — it's a compassionate gesture offered to the victims of gun violence.

In an interesting twist, Adonis Creed's origin is a strange, undulating wave of highs and lows — raised as a troubled youth in the system, adopted by a wealthy and loving widow, and becoming successful in a distinctly white collar world.

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Musical MPAA rating: PG Director: Leo McCarey Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx Plot: Freedonia has borrowed a large sum of money from a wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale.

Kevin Kline is the life of this rather precious coming of age film as Henry Harrison, a former playwright and full time «extra man» (an escort to the wealthy society widows who like a man on their arm for social events) who rents out a room in his walkup to make ends meet.

Stanley relishes the opportunity to recognize and reveal the chicanery of Sophie Baker (Emma Stone), who along with her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is staying with a wealthy English family in Southern France, conducting séances to connect a grieving widow (Jacki Weaver) with her husband.

Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges.

Paired by a social service program, the girls are made roommates in a live - work placement where they share a small apartment at the home of a wealthy, sensitive, and supportive widow, Elizabeth.

Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind.

She is the author of four books: Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows; Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas; Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Pursuit of Justice; and See No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer.

He is serious about two things — his responsibility to the family and his future marriage to a goal of a wealthy, well - connected widow who will secure his place in the territory's destiny.

She skillfully manages multiple points of view to tell the story, among them Claire Burwell, jury member and widow of a wealthy investment banker killed on 9/11; Sean Gallagher, the brother of a firefighter victim, who becomes an angry spokesman for survivor families; and Asma Anwar, a Bangladeshi immigrant, widowed herself on that terrible day, whose dignified appearance at a climactic public hearing provides the story's moral anchor.

Along the way, he finds time to court wealthy widow Martha Custis while professing love for the unattainable wife of a friend.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

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Legend has it that around 1372 a wealthy widow known as «grandmother» Penh discovered five Buddha statues in the hollow trunk of a tree washed up on the banks of the river.

Let's assume one property is owned by a recently widowed client who wants a passive income; one by a wealthy investor with a low tax basis and no mortgage; and one by a developer of a large equestrian ranch that is not selling, and foreclosure is in process on all his assets, including the condo which he borrowed against.