Word: daughter
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Vital Statistics. Age: 58 (born Sept. 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, in a gingerbread Victorian house overlooking the Ohio River). Ancestry: eldest of the three children (two sons, one daughter) of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. and later Chief Justice; grandson of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard...
Walter WincheH's son-in-law, Bostonian William Lawless, son of a retired streetcar motorman, had his marriage to daughter Waldo annulled after nearly three years of no-marriage...
...very Koussevitzky. As the elegant conductor of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra ("the oldest and best orchestra in France," says Münch), "le beau Charles" was the idol of lady concertgoers. Like Koussevitzky himself (whose second wife was rich), Charles Münch is independently wealthy. His wife, the daughter of a Swiss condensed-milk millionaire, inherited a fortune said to be close...
...chair, open only tow women, may be held by a scholar from any field of learning. It was endowed by a $250,000 bequest from Samuel Zemurray, Jr., a graduate of the Harvard Business School, who was killed in action during World War II, and his daughter...
From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the ridiculous. It is hard to believe that the family would remain convinced that Mama's imaginary bank account was real; but acceptance of this anyth is so credibly presented that it isn't questioned. Well selected close-ups of the children's faces enhance the authority of Mama...