Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aboard was a group of German children, aged 6 to 14, en route to Eire to be cared for by the Irish Red Cross, under a plan called "Operation Shamrock." During the trip their escorting Red Cross nurse left the children momentarily in the care of Mrs. Penelope Aitken, daughter of Sir John Maffey, British representative to Eire, and wife of William Aitken, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook. One little German girl, aged about 12, stared at beauteous, blonde Mrs. Aitken a long time, then fingered her coat and said: "That is a lovely coat; where...
...Jump!" Then the people who desperately wanted to live began to die. While firemen yelled "Don't jump!" a *He sold it three years later, stayed on after that as a non-paying guest. woman appeared at a seventh-floor window, threw out her small son, her smaller daughter, then jumped herself. Another woman leaped feet first (as they all did), hit a fireman who was carrying a woman down a ladder and swept them with her to the street. The craze spread, and body after body hurtled down, hitting with dull, leaden sounds. As they fell, slowly...
...outland editions (the Register publishes twelve of them) were more broadminded. In St. Louis, a daughter of the late beer baron August A. Busch stayed in even though she had married her gardener last May, had been divorced by him in July, had married her ex-chauffeur in August...
Born. To John Roosevelt, 30, youngest son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Anne Clark Roosevelt, 30: their third child, second daughter; in Pasadena. Name: Sara Delano (after the infant's great-grandmother). Weight: 6 Ibs. To James Roosevelt, 39, oldest son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and second wife Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 30: their second son (his fourth child); in Los Angeles. Name: Michael Anthony. Weight: 9 Ibs. 8 oz. Grand total of the late President's grandchildren...
...good novels were as rare as vacant apartments. U.S. novelists had nothing to offer more controversial than Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson's frank, unsubtle study of homosexuality, The Fall of Valor, nothing more successfully satirical than John Marquand's B. F.'s Daughter, nothing more socially rebellious than James T. Farrell's Bernard Clare, or Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, a now-gamey-now-gooey protest against the kind of ad man he had been...