Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong-willed María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascarán, Marqués de Villaverde, 28, a doctor in the Spanish army...
However, more than a $1,000,000 of the endowment is invested in a group of liquor companies that make such products as Ruppert's Beer, Four Roses, Lord Calvert, and Old Grand-Dad...
...North Hollywood High School dance band. When it began to look more like a rut than a groove, 17-year-old Piano Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...
...well qualified to teach; he learned his own technique from one of the best: the great French pedagogue Isidor Philipp. He also picked up a few hints from his dad. Stravinsky once heard Soulima as a child playing Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and stopped him: "Tell your teacher he will teach you my music and I will teach you Chopin and Schumann myself...
...remember when we wor turned out of our colliery 'ouse-nowhere ter go because the coal owners owned all the 'ouses. We slept where we could, till me dad got work again. But me mother died-she couldna stand it no longer. And when I wor 13,1 started in the pits pushing tubs...