Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blowhards. In Salem, Ore., Robert Lantz, while tying his baby daughter's shoes, gave an all-out sneeze that dislocated his shoulder, bounced the baby into a corner, blackened her eye. In Wheeling, W. Va., Eddie Bowie, driving his car, sneezed, plunged into another car, which rammed a third. Estimated damages...
...Daughter of a notary in southern France, Marga escaped from the tiresome tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into...
...Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary...
...Best Years of Our Lives" as the best moving picture of 1946 and oscared William Wyler, it director, for the best job of movie direction of the past year. In the 1946 film field, foreign entries such as "Henry V," "Brief Encounter," "Open City," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter" far outdistanced the general run of American film productions in artistic excellence. Most U. S. films seem to suffer from a Hollywood occupational disease that can best be described as a sugary phoniness, a candied insincerity. "The Best Years of Our Lives," it is pleasing to report, is a notable...
...love living here," Mrs. Mary Ann Round commented yesterday, as she maneuvered her daughter away from the electric heater that constituted the bed- room heating plant. "Everything's pretty well organized now," her business school husband George offered, "but on really cold days we've had to close off the living room and one bed-room and put rugs under all the doors...