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Word: daughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sonja as Greta Mueller is the daughter of the keeper of a small Swiss chalet. Her father, accused of professionalism after winning the 1908 Olympics, has trained his daughter for twelve years in the hope that she might win the award which he "won and lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Brooklyn 110 workers in a shoe factory sat down on union orders. Among the strikers were two sons and a daughter of Morris Baidowsky, president of the company. The union, sensible of filial relationships, allowed them to leave the factory and go to the movies. At nightfall a committee of 26 sit-downers was selected to stay the night while others went home. The secretary & treasurer of the company, Herman Baidowsky, another son, came to spend the night, He promised that if they would not break anything they could have light all night, and he would see that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sit-Downs Sat On | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Queen Elizabeth, although the daughter of an earl and descended from the most illustrious Scottish nobility, is technically the "first commoner" to become Queen of England since Henry VIII's Queen Catherine Parr. In nothing has Her Majesty been common, except in dress, for it was undeniable that as Duchess of York she was "the sloppiest dresser in the Royal Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...until after King George V came to the Throne had Westminster Abbey, sacred "Valhalla of the Empire," been used over a period of six centuries for such joyous occasions as a Royal Marriage. A bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George & Queen Mary, was wholesome and attractive young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture is satisfactory and fills the time between 8 and 11 as well...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

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