Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they pushed crates of furniture and filing cabinets. Painters slapped on new paint. Scrub women wore out their knees. There was a minor tempest in the office of Senator John Overton of Louisiana because missing from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared...
...Albania swarthy chiefs have for years been trying to force King Zog to marry Fatima, the daughter of Shefquti Bey and "one of us!" Last year 23 Albanians, who had been urging the charms of Fatima with weapons were seized by order of His Majesty and immediately sentenced to death, but most Albanians still think Zog should marry Fatima...
Promise is punctuated by no dramatic conflict between the principals more exciting than their opposite attitudes toward a mild young man who switches his betrothal from their handsome, animal-spirited daughter to the mother's daughter by a former marriage, a finer girl whose beauty is inward. Deep-reading observers may be able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair...
...diamond bracelets, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean (Father Struck It Rich) revived her celebrated Washington New Year's Eve Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...
...been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping reporting his death Meantime Ochsner got a divorce in Goldfield, Nev., later married one Lena Jessie Nelson...