Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was last spring. Last week, in London's dingy Caxton Hall Registry Office, the scion of Scheherazade's famed Caliph made the London carter's daughter his Princess. The bride's father did not attend. Said he: " 'Arry asked me to give me daughter away-but I said I couldn't afford to lose a whole day's pay." Said Princess Katherine: "My life will be devoted to my husband and my duties to his subjects...
...Duchess of Kent, beauteous widowed sister-in-law of George VI, was assured transportation in fuel-short Britain, come what may. She bought herself a bicycle (and two more for her son and daughter...
...history books, Dr. Dunbar hints, are full of examples of psychosomatic illness. British Prime Minister William Gladstone developed a "diplomatic cold" whenever he faced a difficult or distasteful debate. Elizabeth Barrett, browbeaten daughter of a tyrannical father, was a bedridden invalid for 20 years-and was cured almost overnight when, at the age of 40, she met and married Robert Browning. In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death...
Last Sunday night, for example, Mrs. Theodore Brown, wife of a third-year law student, was having baby trouble. Her 13-month-old daughter, Pamela, had been wheezing all evening. Her husband was out of town. Her pediatrician was in Manchester for the weekend. Along about midnight, she was afraid that the wheezing might be something serious...
...minstrel goes to work on the baron's lovely daughter and becomes entangled in his own toils. His "brother," sticking more faithfully to duty, reveals her sex both to the devout Baron (Ledoux) and to his worldly prospective son-in-law. When the plot gets too complicated, the Devil himself turns up, disguised as a very nasty gentleman, and complicates matters still further. Arletty's lovers are certified for Hell; but Hell's unfaithful minstrel and his sweetheart, thanks to the white magic of True Love, fight the Devil to a draw...