Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monthly visits to tree-shaded Coshocton, where his wife and his unmarried daughter Clara still live in a green-shuttered, red-brick house, Bill Green enjoys the aura which is the reward of famous...
...known throughout central Ohio as a soft touch for bums and loafers. They keep daughter Clara under strict surveillance, follow when she goes to the station to meet her father. As Bill Green steps down from his Pullman they gather round to greet him. The exchange of conversation is always the same. Green says: "It was awfully nice of you fellows to come down to meet me." There is a moment of shuffling and a spokesman for the bums and loafers says something about times being hard, Billy. Green acts surprised and helps out with dollar bills. Everyone goes away...
...world; likewise the luckiest. And for you, dear Mummy, you know that nothing can ever change what we have always been & always will be to each other -only now you have two children to love & to love you-and Eleanor as you know will always be a daughter to you in every true...
Last week, with her country losing its grip on a large part of its overseas empire, Queen Wilhelmina announced that, "for reasons of health," she would "temporarily" transfer the business of ruling to her strapping daughter, Princess Juliana (mother of four strapping little Princesses). To her shocked people, Her Majesty's first minister announced that there was nothing serious to worry about; the Queen, with all "the heavy burdens weighing . . . on her," was just tired...
Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1858, and grew up in the placid, self-satisfied world of 19th Century physics. He became a professor at the University of Kiel, married the daughter of a Munich banker, played the piano and composed music, lived the good intellectual life of Germany's pre-World War I golden age. Outwardly, he did not appear to be a world-shaking revolutionist...