Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preoccupation. In Bath, England, Joane Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
...cheery as the big, frosted cake which he got last week on his 63rd birthday. He said he felt no older than when he came to the Senate in 1935. He had lunch with his staff in the White House mess, a dinner party, with Mrs. Truman and Daughter Margaret along, at Washington's swank F Street Club. Among his birthday presents: three dozen ties, a Panama hat, 63 roses and congressional talk of something more substantial-a pension of $50,000 a year on retirement. After paying taxes and White House operating expenses, he had only about...
...canary-colored Buick? Said Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis: "I guess we'll put it in a museum with a plaque saying that due to certain people this car had to be returned to the city by Barbara Ann Scott . . . Ottawa's most beloved daughter. And I'm not joking...
...first refused because she thought he was a student. When she died in 1841, it was found that all had not been pleasant between the Craigies. She had a lover whom she had been waiting for all her life, and her husband had been getting letters from an illegitimate daughter. When Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered the undercurrents in the mansion, he exclaimed with relish, "What a household! Mrs. Craigie hiding her letters in the attic and Mr. Craigie hiding his letters in the cellar!" When Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their...
...keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...