Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good taking the umbrella to him," mused Don Francesco, "he's quite insensitive to its taps." Counting on his fingers, he said: "There's him, there's his wife Maria, his daughter. Think of it, three votes for the Communists. What a disgrace for all of us." Then he brightened. He had hit on a scheme. He knew that raven-locked Maria Conti, the only woman in Riofreddo who wore modern clothes, hated the drudgery of housework: she was a career woman at heart. Swinging his green umbrella. Father Francesco promptly departed to make Maria Conti head...
...Senator's Daughter. Meanwhile, at the barn the show went on. The actors looked magnificent in their red robes and cardboard helmets. Who cared if now & then they glanced at the scripts in their hands? The play concerned a Roman senator who is to make a speech in favor of the Christians. Pagan priests kidnap the senator's daughter (played by Riofreddo's only blonde). Caffari, the bootmaker, playing the senator's role, lifted trembling hands to heaven. Said he: "Though my daughter shall suffer, I will do my duty and speak! I am a Christian...
Marijke, youngest daughter of The Netherlands' Princess Juliana, celebrated her first birthday in the palace at Soest-dijk, surrounded by gifts (see cut) from distant admirers: the Dutch troops in Indonesia...
Laid in The Bronx in 1919, the play chronicles life in a Jewish family. In an atmosphere of neighbors and noise, Mrs. Goldberg (Playwright Berg) tackles her ABCs at night school; her daughter Rosie starts taking music lessons; her son Sammy prepares for his bar mitzvah. But Me and Molly chiefly concerns the efforts of Mr. Goldberg (Philip Loeb) to set up in business for himself-a shaky venture that, thanks to Mrs. Goldberg, at the end seems likely to prosper...
Born. To Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 52, literary critic (the New Yorker) whose clinically detailed, bestselling Memoirs of Hecate County brought him national renown, and fourth wife Elena Thornton Wilson, 41 (voted one of the "Ten Most Glamorous Women of 1946"): their first child, a daughter; in Boston...