Word: daughter
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Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie built the Georgian mansion in 1900 for $1,000,000, and later put up a 29-room house next door for his daughter. In the old days it took 25 to 30 servants to staff the mansion. They worked in a big kitchen that was white-tiled to the ceiling, waited on Steelmaker Carnegie and his guests in the walnut-paneled library, took care of the vast heating plant. In the basement there is still a mining car, with its own track and turntable, to take coal from the bunker to the stoking floor. On cold days...
...package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would use it every morning on his walks and pass it on to his daughter. He added: "Perhaps some day she can give it to my grandson...
...Likely to Win. "Rock Bros." is a blend of the Rockefellers' own brand of business acumen and Baptist ethics. Born to be rich, but bred to be philanthropists, the sons & daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.-John D. III, 42; Nelson, 40; Laurance, 38; Winthrop, 36; David, 33; and Mrs. Irving Pardee, 45-worry over where their money will do the greatest good, and still bring a reasonable return...
Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires...
...utmost difficulty in evoking a clear picture of feminine psychology in his writing. Elias' biography shows in part why. When he first became interested in girls, the baker's daughter cordially offered "to show him the mysteries which he had hitherto dared only to dream about." At another point, when he was worried about his sexual adequacy, a college girl enticed him into intimate relations. In the depths of his despair and humiliation women suddenly appeared from nowhere-they were his for the asking, and no one he had the courage to approach seems to have refused...