Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballots & Bounces. At his polling place next day, the President of the U.S. had none of the privacy plain citizens are granted. He, Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret marked their ballots in open cubicles. Cameramen were almost peeping over his shoulder as he put a pencil to his lips and made one mark. As he dropped his vote into a box, a newsman asked him if he had voted the straight Democratic ticket. Said Democrat Truman: "I always follow my own advice . . . I'm the sort that says...
...soon took to making sheep's eyes at a banker's beautiful daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next...
Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad...
...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...
...Humorist's Handicap. Born in 1828, the son of a tailor and naval outfitter, Meredith was redheaded, hardworking, and fond of boxing. At 21 he married a daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, whose novels are minor classics of his time. His wife was a poet, brilliant, beautiful, and six and a half years older than he. After bearing him a child, she ran off to Capri with a painter, returned in due time with another child in her arms...