Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported: "The body of Wencil Beranek, 65, was found in a creek three and a half miles east of Waldorf. It was on its back and eyeglasses were still in place. Two pennies were found in a pocket." And the Jasper County (Ind.) Democrat recorded: "Irene, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Neeley, passed away at the Riley Hospital. She had been a patient for the past four years suffering with a heart ailment...
William Earl Lama, 49, is a nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
...Wollaston, Massachusetts, Miss Gordon's play tells, with rich local color, the story of her early passion to be an actress and of how she convinced her parents to let her have a fling at it. The play has humor, pathos, and great insight into both parents and daughter. In addition, it never degenerates into a period version of "Junior Miss" or "Kiss and Tell." This is no small accomplishment considering that the girl connives behind her father's back, has two adulating friends who are as interested in her problems as she is herself, and repulses all advances made...
...bringing these characters to life she has received brilliant help from director and cast. Frederic March and Florence Eldridge as the parents, and Patricia Kirkland as the daughter, act with taste and style all the way through. Miss Kirkland in particular, with a huge part calling for great range, squeals and cries and emotes her way through a remarkable performance...
Divorced. Margaret ("Peggy") Guggenheim Ernst, 48, uninhibited daughter of the late copper mogul Benjamin Guggenheim, exhibitionist of nonrealistic art; by Maximilian Maria ("Max") Ernst, 55, prizewinning surrealist (Temptation of St. Anthony) ; after five years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Reno...