Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constitutionally bilious and inclined to be morose in the morning, at heart he is a "family man," specially devoted to his only grandchild, 2-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Christian's younger son Prince Knud. At home with the Queen, he twiddles the radio for her like any shopkeeper...
When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy. The children are less positive. George is trying to put a daughter through college. Cora's husband is poor. Nellie's husband's business is bad. Robert has all he can do to look after himself. The plan they finally work out is for Lucy to live with George while Barkley goes to stay with Cora...
Broken by the first separation in their 50 years of marriage, Barkley and Lucy make bad visitors. Lucy interferes with her daughter-in-law's bridge parties. Barkley gets in wrong with Cora. When the children decide, as an alternative arrangement, to send their father to a daughter who lives in California, their mother to an old ladies' home, it solves the situation for everyone except Lucy and Barkley. They meet in New York, spend their last evening together on a mild spree and then, in a scene marked by its skilful reticence, say good...
...national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell, who traveled with the "sad young men in the foreign service—touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath," brooded over missing out on a rich, titled Englishman. The Senator's sorrows...
...Blue, Bugles Blow No More strings its beads of action on the thin thread of a love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon...