Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting him from captain to brigadier general over the heads of 862 other officers...
...Berlin's quadripartite air-safety center, U.S., British and French officers busily recorded the arrival and departure of planes. Off in a quiet corner sat the Soviet officer on duty, curled up with a good book. It was Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter, a short novel studded with Russian proverbs. One of the proverbs could well be applied to the carefully planned but, so far, unsuccessful Russian blockade. It read: "A horse has four legs, and yet it stumbles...
...that, in an older time, might well have put County Donegal up in arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about the dook." Then off they...
...famous father ("Alas! The way he received some of my first attempts . . ."). From Rimsky an admiring Stravinsky learned the techniques of orchestration. Stravinsky sent his scores to Rimsky for criticism, including an orchestral fantasy called Fireworks, which he had written to celebrate the marriage of Rimsky's daughter Nadia (see cut). Fireworks came back marked "Not delivered because of the addressee's death...
...hypochondriac, he is always conscious of drafts. He himself has had four serious illnesses; his first wife suffered from tuberculosis and his elder daughter died of it. His wife, his daughter and his mother all died within a year. Says he, with misty eyes: "There were three coffins in my apartment that year. It became quite impossible...