Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance research and advertising for Progressive Education, P. E. A. needed money. It did not need to look outside its own group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
...take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...
Good sequence: Dr. Abbott, when his adopted daughter's boy friend accidentally shoots her in the arm, using the incident to blackmail the boy's stingy father into giving Westport a hospital...
...born, graduating from Northwestern in 1923, she got a job with the Chicago firm of Scott, Foresman, textbook publishers, spent three years learning what children like to read. Wife of Donald G. Rose, Department of Agriculture agent, who she says "is not the least bit literary," Editor Rose is daughter-in-law of Philip Sheridan Rose, editor of Curtis' Country Gentle...
Daphne du Maurier, daughter of the famous Gerald, whose lively portrait she wrote three years ago, has written five novels. The fifth, Rebecca, is definitely two cuts above Jamaica Inn, the thriller which won her reputation...