Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Louise Converse Morgan, 19, daughter of Junius Spencer Morgan, granddaughter of J. Pierpont Morgan; and Raymond Skinner Clark, 22, 1936 Harvard crew captain; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Paul William Gallico, 39, Manhattan sports and fiction writer; by his second wife, Mrs. Elaine St. Johns Gallico, 21, daughter of Hearst Hollywood Columnist Adela Rogers St. Johns: in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty, slapping her face for "a facetious remark...
GUNNAR'S DAUGHTER-Sigrid Undset- Knopf...
Gimnar's Daughter, one of her first novels, was published in 1909, when Sigrid Undset was 27. A brief, direct story, melodramatic as the folk tales on which it is modeled, it lacks both the involved psychological analyses that weight down her modern fiction, the realistic details that distinguish her historical romances. Since it is laid in the reign of King Olav, when Norway was undergoing the transition from paganism to Christianity, it also reveals Sigrid Undset's profound religious feeling, is an early expression of the devotion that was eventually to lead her to write thesis novels...
...faith in his own strength," lived to learn that his strength was not great enough. When young Ljot of Iceland arrived at Vadin on a timber-buying expedition, old Gunnar made him welcome, was not adamant when 20-year-old Ljot soon wanted to marry his only daughter. Ljot was a fatherless, headstrong, impulsive Viking. At 13 he had killed his father's murderer, become widely known both for his deeds and his songs. When he set his heart on Vigdis he refused all counsel of patience, tact, forbearance...