Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hsiung has committed to letters an old Chinese play that has been handed down by word of mouth for sixth-six generations, or some two thousand years. Primitive conceptions of romance apparently have much in common, for the story contains such supposedly Occidental elements as the third daughter of the family's being far and away the best; a princess's being mortally bored with her noble suitors and throwing herself into the arms of a commoner; and a wanderer's returning in unrecognizable pomp after having departed in lowliness...
...beat his head against customs, he will be unhappy and will wear off the crown the lustre which his three predecessors worked hard to add. The way out of the maze is for him to resign, handing over the sceptre to a regent in trust for the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of York and heir apparent. This dignified gesture would hurt the crown much less than the current hush-hush hocus pocus, and would allow all parties to breathe easier...
...blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along on his mission. "I wrote her a letter," he said. 'It seemed to me to be the only way of putting everything clearly before her for her mature reflection...
...over was all foolishness. He was sure she could feel better if she made an effort. As they started for the interior after Carrie had had four wisdom teeth pulled without anesthetics they returned because complications developed. "It was very inconvenient," Andrew later confessed to his daughter, "but we started again with a delay of a little under two hours. I was eager to get at my work...
...prepared at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Charles P. Taft, Ohio-born, chief among Governor Landon's advisers, prepared at Taft school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure of genuine Americanism. He believes...