Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businesslike apply and myself improve. I think, the best way is to correspond with an American. Therefore I beg you is there not a girl, about 14-18 years old she will correspond with me. Perhaps is one in your office or one of your employees has a daughter or relation. Please, do me favour. If you have found a girl, say her that she write to me at once...
Thus wrote John Joseph Henry, rifleman of Captain Matthew Smith's company, concerning Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec in 1775. He could not know, dictating these opening lines of his journal to his daughter thirty-five years after the expedition, that one day the exploits of Arnold and his men would be the background of one of the greatest of American historical novels--Keneth Roberts' "Arundel". In "Arundel", Arnold's march to Quebec forms the principle episode of a book alight with the fire and energy of the Revolutionary period, an episode which created such interest in the expedition...
Just who would be particularly interested in this book, we can't imagine . . . unless it's the shy deb who could memorize it for conversational fodder or the aspiring Mama who would like to have her daughter escorted by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor. Some of the data has a really whimsical touch . . . the Cuban boy at Princeton with "Distinguished characteristic of mother's family-nobility" . . . the Harvard man who claims "Profession most traditional in mother's family-advertising" . . . "gun manufacturing" and "coal operator" are listed as the professions most traditional in two Yale men's families...
...Buccaneers begins in Saratoga in the 1870s, where Mrs. St. George and her husband are watching over their two handsome daughters. Because Colonel St. George, a shady Wall Street speculator, needs the financial assistance of a still shadier Mr. Clossons, Mrs. St. George agrees to entertain Mrs. Clossons. This brings their girls into friendship with the Clossons' wild daughter, and gets ambitious Mrs. St. George in wrong with the Manhattan dowagers...
Looking very much like a scholar and gentleman, Granville Hicks '23, the first Communist to secure a Harvard appointment, has arrived in Cambridge and is already settled in fashionable Waban. He has a wife and daughter, speaks quietly, and is impatient with the publicity created by is appointment last spring as one of the seven American History counsellors...