Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connecticut weekend party comes Invader Cindy Lou Bethany (Helen Claire), a Georgia Congressman's daughter and blood kin of Culpeppers, Covingtons, Albemarles. She comes with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and nail the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national bestseller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Prattling and coy, she comes, with a hoopskirt, a guitar and blatant pride of race, smack into the presence of the most brutal wisecrackers and merciless limbchoppers in Yankeedom...
Engaged. Lieut. Bruno Mussolini, 21. Italian Royal Air Force pilot, second son of Il Duce; and Gina Ruberti, 20-year-old daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome...
...Boston, marries and comes under the influence of the Rev. Mr. Emerson, he begins to write unselfconsciously and lightly, mixing portraits of his neighbors with reflections on God, literature, teaching, fugitive slaves he sheltered, the punishment of children (he had come to the painful conclusion that his disobedient daughter Louisa was possessed of the devil...
...such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical conversations about woman's responsibilities, that it might have been written in an effort to check Britain's declining birth rate. Mother of three sons and a daughter, Enid Bagnold in private life is Lady Roderick Jones, wife of the chairman of Reuters, leading British news agency...
...make them miss the point of Miss Bagnold's story. The squire, it turns out, is so called because in the absence of her husband she runs the household. Waiting for the birth of her fifth child, she watches over her three sons and her gentle, intuitive daughter, takes no nonsense from anybody: "Nonsense and a trouble," she thinks, "but it had to go on. No other way of living if you wanted to walk to your grave cloaked in the English life...