Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiments, eagerly dispute with an amazing number of shabbily dressed persons from all parts of Europe who have managed to get to Paris for this high-powered intellectual carnival. Among French scientists who have collaborated to make and staff the Palace of Discovery is Mine Curie-Joliot, eminent chemist daughter of the discoverer of radium. One completely round room exhibits the mathematical symbol pi (ordinarily figured as equal to 3,1416) worked out to such a length that the resulting decimal winds three times around the room. At intervals is heard a phonograph transcription of a short lecture...
Scali. To his widow, Inventor Marconi willed the interest on his daughter's bequest during her lifetime. To his son and two daughters by his first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...
Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...
...turns him away with a story about her past that is almost as bad as the ones he has been hearing about his Hanoverian relatives. Breaking point of his German adventures is when he sees how an old baron avenges the seduction of his niece and her daughter by a lecherous nobleman. Covering the lovers with a pistol, the baron reads Old Testament verse, orders the lecher to undress his mistress, then slits his eyeballs...
...foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means to guarantee Victoria's accession to the throne. Having made good many pages later, Christopher asks nothing in return except a royal document canceling his actress friend's unsavory beginnings as a prostitute's daughter...