Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard from other people who have slept there. One of them heard footsteps and hoofbeats in the courtyard every evening, and finally moved away. Another was the landlady's daughter. She once felt a spot of darkness move toward her in the night and mumble some gibberish in her ear. The next morning her ear was full...
...Raymond Harrison, a Negro ex-G.L, learned of the lifting of California's ban on mixed marriage. He wrote to Germany, asked his wartime sweetheart,Ilse Maier, to bring their 2½-year-old daughter to San Francisco and marry...
...were the years of new railways, roads, schools, flood control, famine-fighting agencies. Chiang himself struggled with the problem of how the old traditions (represented by Confucianism) could be blended with the new ideas. He married one of the three Soong sisters, Wellesley-graduated Meiling, a Christian and a daughter of famed "Old Charlie" Soong, who had made his first fortune in printing and selling Chinese Bibles. (Chiang's first wife, who was still living then, was sent back to her village, Chinese-style, to live on a pension.) Chiang himself became a Methodist, but the conversion...
Born. To James Mason, 39, romantic villain of British films (The Seventh Veil, Odd Man Out), and Pamela Kellino Mason, 32, novel-writing cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Portland (after Portland Hoffa, wife of Radio Comic Fred Allen). Weight...
...forced to serve Mammon, to the student (Lois Wheeler) who lacks the courage to admit she is Jewish, people are harassed and torn two ways. All this (and kleptomania too) catches the eye of a bullying, power-hungry student (Doe Avedon), a rich trustee's daughter who, when she cannot command, can only conspire. Like the brat in The Children's Hour, she twists and messes up lives, but in this case things get straightened out before...