Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florence Kathryn Lewis, a plump, soft-voiced young woman of 25, sat tensely blowing smoke at a mystery thriller in her suite in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel one day last week. Born in dingy Panama, Ill., she had grown up as the daughter of a rising young union official in Springfield. By the time she was ready, her still rising father had been able to send her to the Kirk School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., then on to Bryn Mawr College. But college seemed dull after living with her dynamic father and his problems; after two years...
...each $100 worth of taxable property. In 1931 President Kent supplemented his plant by opening a separate free college for Louisville's Negroes a mile from the main campus. Although Louisville is coeducational, grey-haired, able lowan Kent, who gets $15,000 a year, sends his own daughter Constance to Vassar...
...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...
...hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown son, pride in his golf, a fondness for fishing and a natural leaning toward conservatism. The executive offices in his new building are period (Queen Anne and Georgian), but the president's office does have a highly functional bar adjoining. At home Harry Housser has to serve...
Married. Lyla M. Townsend, daughter of Delaware's Senator John G. Townsend Jr.; and Prew Savoy, Washington attorney; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City; in the Mayor's office...