Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperous Jewish theatre-goers who for some reason are always amused when they see their kind depicted as sentimental, hysterical money-worshippers. The story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets...
...Daughter of an Irish father and Hungarian mother, Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wis. 49 years ago. At the Manhattan Art Students' League in 1905 she was dark, handsome, known to every one as Patsy. But soon she gagged at the sort of painting she was being taught, went off to earn her living in various advertis ing agencies, later became a public school art supervisor in Amarillo...
Jubilant at the turn of their fortunes after six long years were Widow Busby and her children, Son John who returned home from Princeton for the decision, and pretty Daughter Janet (Mrs. Philip Walsh) of Philadelphia. Best estimates were that Mrs. Busby would recover between $250,000 and $400.000, unless the State Supreme Court upset the verdict...
...Emperor since he was 18. Now he was 23, and his managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy, but so pretty...
...hated it. More than anything else, she hated Sophie. And to Sophie, Sisi was never anything more than a bad bargain. When Sisi quickly became pregnant, Sophie scolded her for keeping parrots, said the sight of them might affect the child's looks. When Sisi's baby daughter was born, Sophie immediately snatched her away, kept her. "Give her the child?" said Sophie. "When she cannot even discipline herself? Never!" The same thing happened with the second baby, also a girl. Finally Franz Joseph took a hand, attempted to rescue Sisi's children for her. Sophie chalked...