Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When these jibes had failed to bring any reply. Governor Rivers belatedly learned that Governor Hurley had spent most of the week at the bedside of his 8-year-old daughter, ill at the Hurley summer home in Hull, Mass. He wired: "Having a daughter and granddaughter of my own . . . I can sympathize with you. May the spirit of the all-wise Creator comfort you in your trouble...
...Powell, a retired merchant of West Lafayette, Ohio, are lobeless - i.e., the "lobes" are fastened to the skin of the neck. The ear lobes of Harry Lee Canright, onetime a medical missionary at Chengtu, China, and of his family are free. Dr. Canright's free-lobed daughter married lobeless Eugene F. Powell, zoologist son of the West Lafayette Powells. The ears of their five sons and daughters have free lobes...
...great academician, Pope had been president of the American Academy in Rome since 1933. An amiable and elegant gentleman, he lived in Newport in a low, rambling mansion which he designed and called "The Weaves." The afternoon of his daughter Jane's party in 1933 he amazed swank Newport by opening his house to the public...
...heavy-jowled Jew of 64, Herbert Fleishhacker made a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills, got into banking in 1907 by marrying the daughter of Sigmund Greenbaum, president of San Francisco's London, Paris & American Bank. Simon and Alexandre Lazard, Alsatian commission merchants who started Lazard Freres in San Francisco during the gold rush, in 1884 formed the London, Paris & American Bank to handle their interests when the firm moved to New York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker...
Although the love sonnets of Astrophel and Stella were addressed to a beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...