Word: dad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from the University of Edinburgh, Jenny Lee, who is entitled to practice law but teaches school instead, proved a most formidable antagonist, took the seat from Lord Scone by nearly...
...Wabash, Ind., Colonel Lindbergh invited Marilyn Lockwood, 9, for a flight. Chary, unimpressed, Marilyn demurred. "I never fly with anyone but my dad...
...gauche little play needed no such apologetic introduction. In it was unfolded the story of a favorite daughter of Idaho, who, after attending an Eastern college, returned to the potato dad hills of her native state, followed by her fiance. Local entanglements of politics and domesticity prevented her immediate marriage. She was compelled to wait while her two sisters ran away from their husbands, while her maiden aunt gave a despondent tirade upon the subject of celibacy and while her father was appointed, after much political turmoil, to the bench of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, she got herself...
Quickly he explained: "Just received a free copy of TIME and it's wonderful. Please read it Dad...
...Dad, TIME has a special offer for $1 and I would like to take advantage of it, but I am somewhat financially embarrassed...