Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearances Princess Elizabeth is exactly the daughter that plain, conscientious King George and matronly Queen Elizabeth deserve. That is precisely what her future subjects want her to be. Transplanted by some magic into almost any upper-middle-class suburb in the U.S., Mr. & Mrs. George Windsor would undoubtedly be among the solidest section of the community. With her mind never quite detached from the children, well-read, talented Mrs. Windsor would find time to be popular and businesslike at meetings of the Altar Guild and the Garden Club...
From the first, Elizabeth's father and mother (Papa and Mummie) were determined to keep their daughter's life as free from the shadow of the Crown as possible. But in Britain, as in most of the Empire, Princess Lilibet was the private darling of every household. Her every gurgled word, new tooth, prank or bright saying was reported and syndicated to the farthest outposts. Did Lilibet have a new camera? The press promptly drooled: "She has already taken some quite creditable photos since she mastered the art of getting her subjects into focus...
...hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret. "Wherever did you learn such slang?" King George once asked his younger daughter. "Oh," said Margaret, "at my mother's knee-or some such low joint...
Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, café and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight...
...John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience marriage with Widow Dvorak over the scarcely cold body of her husband; frames her with Diplomat Warren William in order to be free to marry little Miss Douglas; buys a title and, ultimately, gets killed...