Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rimsky's daughter's wedding Stravinsky wrote Fen d' Artifice, a fantasy so colorful that Sergei Diaghilev promptly commissioned him to write for the Russian Ballet. Fame came quickly with The Firebird (1910), Petrouchka (1911) and Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) which caused such a furor at the Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes...
Married. Lois Walters, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Augustus Walters; and Robert Coker, stepson of the daughter of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; in Washington...
Died. Mrs. Katharine De Voe Cowles, 32, daughter of President John M. De Voe of U. S. Tobacco Co.; after swallowing tablets of bichloride of mercury; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Cannot tell you how much we appreciated the weekend. I thank you, my wife thanks you, my wife's little daughter thanks you. Cheerio...
Thomas Sutpen arrived in Jefferson with a group of wild slaves, built himself a great mansion, married, raised a son Henry and a daughter Judith, became a Confederate colonel, died at the hand of a poor white squatter whose daughter he had seduced. Previously Sutpen had married in Haiti, left his wife when he discovered she had a-spot of Negro blood in her veins. But his son by this first marriage became Henry Sutpen's friend, fell in love with Judith, was at the point of marrying her, despite his knowledge of their kinship, when Henry killed...