Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event, when Joe Kennedy and his wife, daughter of Boston's onetime Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald, arrive in London with a quorum of their nine children, an old tradition of U. S. diplomacy will have been broken: for the first time in history, a U. S. Ambassador to Britain will be 1) Irish and 2) Catholic. Career Man. Ambassador William E. Dodd's departure from Berlin has long been foreshadowed by his open, undiplomatic detestation of Nazi methods, which reached its climax last summer, when he publicly protested against the State Department's granting of permission...
Engaged. Peter Gerald Lehman, 21, son of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman; to Peggy Lashanska Rosenbaum, 18, daughter of Concert Singer Hulda Lashanska; in Manhattan...
...Alcatraz Island," the second feature, we have an absorbing social problem not hitherto brought to the attention of the public. It paints the difficulties of a racketeer (John Lithel) in bringing up his daughter (Mary Maguire) on the correct intellectual and cultural level. He finally sends her to Europe with his mistress, and she returns in time to fall in love with the District Attorney and free her father from "the Rock." This picture is not guaranteed...
...What Mr. Blitzstein has to say concerns what happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind The Cradle Witt Rock and that laughter gives the play its vigor...
...than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended to be sold at Woolworth's. A typical letter of her last days reels off to her daughter a fearful jeremiad of grievances, dark suspicions, comments on the latest trunk murder, cries out: "Oh! how I admire that man Hitler!" She was, said Kipling, "the most wonderful person I have ever met. ... It is outside all my experience, and of a type to which I know no duplicate...