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Men such as Governor-General William Bentinck worked with missionaries and reformers such as Brahman Ram Mohan Roy to legislate against the practice of widows becoming sati by climbing onto the funeral pyres of their respective husbands.
Christopher, Tony's protégé, has a new gig as an SEC compliance officer involving some complicated scheme to dump crummy stock on unsuspecting widows and shut-ins, but basically he's the same asshole junkie he always was, and has taken to fighting in bars with Ariana, his girlfriend.
Only then could Chanel daringly use dull black textiles, until then associated with widows' weeds and maids' uniforms, for plain but costly little dresses that made the contrived, bright, or pallid garb of the belle époque look foolish.
Men are the clear winners of this arrangement in both social and economic terms, and many widows and their children, dispossessed or not, struggle against enormous odds simply to survive.
This government would enact welfare legislation to care for the widows and orphans of the war.