Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daughter of a Masseuse! The generals invaded the august presence of the Führer on the plea that the most sacred traditions of the Army and the celebrated Potsdam Code of officers' conduct had been flagrantly violated by the marriage of War Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals...
Thurston has, to date, received two letters, one of which is from Chicago, asking for the custody of the kitten. The Chicago correspondent has written that her daughter has already selected a name for the animal...
...story, such as it is, concerns an international munitions king who employs a soldier of fortune as his go-between in China because he learns that the daughter of a Nicaraguan official whom he has murdered is living in Shanghai...
...England's culture had begun to go to seed before the Civil War, but the war acted as an almost killing frost. Where Bronson Alcott's first experiences were peaceful peddling trips to the South, his sensitive daughter Louisa got her initiation into the great world in a Civil War hospital, where, in her first hour on duty, her patient died, and where she tried to lessen a soldier's agony by reciting Dickens to him while his arm was being amputated without an anesthetic. Bronson Alcott returned from his trips across the U. S. in times...
...careful, sympathetic biography, Katharine Anthony's Louisa May Alcott points the contrast between father and daughter, draws a subtle picture of the relationship within the strange Alcott family, but is principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life...