Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gray children are collecting clothing, toys and oranges for the Chinese children in the Shanghai Blind School and a nursery for foundlings. My daughter Margrethe, I am told, is going to be the Virgin Mary in the Shanghai American school's Christmas pageant. Still, for all the mellow effort we foreigners in China will make to honor the tinsel and holly tradition within our warm little family groups, I think no Christmas ever seemed to hold less prospect of cheer or promise. It isn't a reporter's Christmas in China this year...
...Yuki's hand. Once more she refused, and once more George left Japan, leaving behind this time a self-addressed envelope in case O-Yuki should change her mind. Then, without notice, 0-Yuki's law student quit school to marry a rich man's daughter; O-Yuki promptly mailed the envelope. Within 20 days, which was very good time in 1903, George was at her side...
Romola would also like to get her daughter Kyra in the movies. But Kyra, who is 33 and runs a ballet school in France, wants to dance. Says Romola: "I don't advise anyone to dance. You train for 20 years and are famous for three...
...King was so impressed that he hired him as his own lawyer. When Captain King died in 1885 at 60, he left his widow, Henrietta, 500,000 acres of land and a $500,000 debt. She asked Bob the First to manage the ranch. Soon he married her youngest daughter Alice...
...ranch, even to go to high school, and then for two years to the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture. In 1916 he came home for good to help run the ranch. Ten years later, after a whirlwind 17-day courtship, he married pretty Washington-reared Helen Campbell, daughter of longtime Republican Congressman Philip Pitt Campbell of Kansas...