Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged...
Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service...
Nine years ago, when Collector Guggenheim was 67, he had his portrait painted by the ardent Baroness Hilla Rebay. Born in Alsace, the daughter of a German general, the Baroness has studied painting all her life, was won to non-objectivity in 1914, some time after the Battle of the Marne. After working with other abstractionists in Switzerland, the Baroness came to the U. S. in 1926. Here she still paints objective portraits, for money, but scrupulously tells her clients, "I will paint a picture that looks like you, but it will...
...peep" on. her 16-year-old son Herbie who wished to marry Clarey Johns, 24, that "Charlie was afeered we would do the same on Eunice." But, said she, "This thing is all right with God. I know. A man who has God's word married my daughter. . . . They don't actually live as man and wife. Why, she's still my child, just my little baby. He treats her just like always, except they sleep in the same room now." Said Father Winstead: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. I wouldn...
...Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American Revolution. Their father was a mining engineer from Oil City, Pa. who liked to boast of his Scotch Covenanter descent. In 1880 he went to Russia to develop the rich oil fields at Grozny. There he met and married Xenia Rogoznaia, daughter of a Cossack general...