Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turning over the Times-Herald to his favorite niece and crown princess of Chicagoland, 28-year-old Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller. Bertie could hardly have found anyone more American or more Midwestern than "Bazy" Miller, who is the granddaughter of President-Maker (and U.S. Senator) Mark Hanna, the daughter of Senator Medill McCormick and Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms...
Born. To Esther Williams, 27, hazel-eyed cinemermaid (Bathing Beatify, Neptune's Daughter), and second husband Ben Gage, 32, lanky (6 ft. 5 in.) radio actor-announcer: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Benjamin Stanton. Weight...
...mentally and physically exhausted and very unhappy . . ." She accused the press of subjecting her husband to "abuse" and telling "terrible lies" about Rossellini ("It seemed they were just trying to kill him"). But what really decided her on quitting, she added, was what happened to her ten-year-old daughter recently on a Minnesota farm. "Some newspapermen dressed themselves as broom sellers to try to get a statement out of her. That was inhuman...
According to the testimony of Gustave Flaubert (James Mason), Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones) was by temperament more sybarite than sinner. Corrupted by her early reading of "lush "romances, she developed a love of fine clothes and luxurious emotions which her life as a peasant's daughter did little to satisfy. Her difference from other women lay not in her tastes and temptations, but in her ruthless talent for translating them into fact...
...believe that each of his ordeals was merely a penance on his own road to Damascus. He went home, and became the Grand Old Man of Swedish letters. While he was dying of cancer of the stomach, he wanted to have his children near him. One evening, while his daughter Karin was at his bedside, he picked up the Bible and murmured: "Everything is atoned for." Soon afterwards, he died...