Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead made very disagreeable stinks with his chemicals. She goes back to him when she learns that he is through with the smelly part of his work, and is about to go to France to make perfume. Perhaps Mr. Herendeen has his tongue in his cheek about that daughter, but he is dead serious about the next one. Her troubles are not chemical, but biological. She couldn't give her husband a baby, so decided to give him a chance with somebody else. His not wanting that chance didn't make any difference. This is all very well, except that...
...acting features Herbert Yost and Mary Young, and is excellent throughout. Greta Granstedt as the youngest daughter is incredibly babyish, but it's fairly clear that she's meant to be that...
Powell, smiling, superior, quietly humorous, was far outshone by the impetuous Lombard. Madcap society daughter Lombard suffers from a bitter jealousy of her older sister. Searching for a forgotten man to help beat her sister in a scavenger hunt, Lombard finds Powell living on the city dump. Grateful to him for having helped beat her sister, Lombard adopts Powell as her protege and gives him the position of butler...
Married. Betty Baden-Powell, daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (British Girl Scouts); and Gervas Clay, Rhodesia official; in Bentley, England...
...household of a Cambridge clergyman in the 1870's. Eleanor Abbott's grandfather was the prolific author of the Rollo books. Her father was first a Congregationalist and later an Episcopal minister. "Before I knew him he had been a Congregationalist," writes his daughter. In the Abbott household conversations turned largely on pious and literary matters, with the three children reduced to boredom when they were not afraid of saying something wrong. Largely a record of the wrong things that Eleanor said, Being Little in Cambridge begins with a scene of consternation when Eleanor declared she could remember...