Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope. Three days before, Brooks had left his wife Ruth and his daughter Elizabeth vacationing in Maine, and flown to Newark on a last, desperate hope. There he hired a car. He called Watkins at his home in Princeton, asked him to have dinner with him at the Princeton Inn. The shadows lay long on the grass, and the dining room was beginning to fill when Watkins drove up and parked in the drive outside the inn. Brooks walked over...
...dringt zijn diensten nimmer op" (An Orange never forces his services on anyone). One of her young advisers said recently: "She hoped too much. She has been disappointed too much." This week, at 68, after half a century of rule, she leaves the throne in favor of her sturdy daughter, 39-year-old Juliana. Schoolchildren were singing a new song in Wilhelmina's honor...
...Hail V.V.S.L!" Almost since anyone can remember, Juliana's sturdy hands have been encased in spotless white gloves; yet they have never lost what only few royal hands dare possess-the common touch. Wilhelmina grew up in solitude, and did her best to spare her daughter that chilling ordeal. Instead of skating by herself on a guarded rink, Juliana did her skating with other kids. At 18, she entered Leiden University. She was a popular and adequate student, if not brilliant. Her judgment showed a Dutch caution that sometimes bordered on ludicrous understatement. Once she read a book...
Journey into Squalor. Her work began in Philadelphia, when she was "about 18." It was then that she heard of a wealthy lady who had founded a new Catholic order. Katharine Drexel, daughter of a Morgan partner, had been troubled by the squalor of Indian life she had seen on a trip through the West. In Rome later, she begged Pope Leo XIII to do something about it. "Why don't you become a missionary yourself?" the Pope replied. Katharine Drexel did, and gathered together in the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament a group of women who devoted their...
Marriage Revealed. Allan S. Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York's onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief's daughter and Lehman's longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement...