Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years went by, and the mother in Cambridge continued to be freer, more adventurous than her daughter in New Haven, and--in Santayana's phrase--to have "a single eye for the truth." Perhaps if Yale had lacked proper respect, she might have lifted her unyielding nose and branded the parent a hussy. The year 1858 underlined the differences in attitude, when six Harvard athletes picked the color which for them represented the tone of their alma mater. The occasion was the Boston City Regatta, at which Harvard deemed it necessary to have some distinctive mark. So the boat club...
...Haven daughter, regardless of how blue she was, had yet to show gratitude to her crimson mother. As is the case with these filial things, its expression required maturing. It came, finally, in 1928 when a son of Yale, Mr. Harkness, walked into President Lowell's office with a present of seven Houses, truly a noble return for Harvard's part in bringing Yale to life. A decade later the seven Houses are as meaningful and vital as the six handkerchiefs (one of them still lies in the archives). And our teams, all of them, will show how proud...
...ardent theatregoer, Franklin Roosevelt prefers to watch movies at the White House. He has never said that Walter Huston is his favorite actor; he has never seen Actress Tallulah Bankhead, the daughter of his Speaker of the House, on the stage, but has met her at a White House reception...
...Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands last year set a precedent by personally preannouncing the birth of her daughter over the radio (TIME, June 28, 1937). Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...
Born. To Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 36, younger brother of King George, and his wife, Princess Margaritas, 21, granddaughter of the former Kaiser: a daughter, their first child; in Athens...