Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affaires of the Dominican Republic, although he was not recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...
...queen of queens, the 21-year-old daughter of a dental technician, had no hifalutin ideas for the future. While her measurements (height 5 ft. 7 in., weight 130 lbs., bust 35 in.) flashed across the land and the usual flood of show-business offers poured in, she an nounced that she planned to take the $5,000 scholarship and use it to finish her studies at Memphis State College. Hollywood was definitely out, she said. Already engaged to a medical school student, she explained: "I'm only interested in one contract - the marriage contract...
...Even in those days, the British got around. Long-Arm's mother was an English girl called Gyda, who was the daughter of King Harold. † When it grew too narrow, an outer wall was built around the merchants' quarters, known as Kitai Gorod (or Chinatown), a name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...
Engaged. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, curly-haired eldest daughter of Britain's Labor Prime Minister; to Harold William Shipton, 26, bespectacled electrical engineer; in London...
...jerked-or jerked at, anyhow-on behalf of the dear, dead days of the two-a-day. More tears are tried for when the two little girls, lonely for their touring parents, turn up for Christmas and are entertained by the whole troupe. Some tension develops when the older daughter (Mona Freeman) falls in love with an adolescent socialite and becomes embarrassed about her cheerfully gaudy parents. But Father & Mother are so thoroughly kind and understanding that no harm and very little drama ever really develops...