Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House dance in honor of the President's next prospective daughter-in-law, Ethel du Pont, was scheduled for the day after Christmas, then unscheduled and left dangling because her fiance, Franklin Jr., lay in Massachusetts General Hospital waiting an operation for an acute sinus infection...
...home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter "Lilybet" (together with her marked facial resemblance to Queen Mary) insures her great popularity with Britain's masses...
...author. The result was a friendship that lasted as long as Morris lived. Last week Shaw offered U. S. readers his pleasant reminiscences of his friend in a 52-page memoir originally published in England as the foreword to a monumental, expensive ($20.75) biography of Morris written by his daughter...
...given "a penny to a millionaire who has bought a newspaper and found his pockets empty." Spending much time in Morris' home, where the only social drawbacks were Shaw's vegetarianism and Mrs. Morris' aloof silences, Shaw soon fell in love with Morris' beautiful daughter, May. The equally beautiful, stately and cool...
Shaw admired Morris' daughter from afar until on one occasion he saw her staring at him carefully and quite deliberately make "a gesture of assent with her eyes." Deciding that he could not, as a brother-Communist, commit Morris' "beautiful daughter to a desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said nothing to her. Still he believed that in some mystic way they were betrothed, and that she knew it, was consequently stunned when she ran off with a Comrade named Sparling, who was even poorer than himself. Nor was that all, for the rival's possibilities of future eminence...