Word: daughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, but his sponsorship was the fillip the trend needed. Mainbocher is a slim, blond, fluty young man who used to play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip...
...Bramwell Booth aged, the Army grew more prosperous but less productive. In 1929 his subordinates finally ousted him after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth. Daughter of William and sister of Bramwell, she loved the Army more than any man she ever met, long headed its work...
...studied at the Sorbonne and in Florence after graduation from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests, Mrs. Morrow, while raising four children, wrote poetry (Quatrains for My Daughter, Beast, Bird and Fish), and a child's book (The Painted Pig). She supervised the building of the beautiful Morrow house and gardens at Cuernavaca near Mexico City, helped Daughter Elisabeth run a school in Englewood, N. J., headed Englewood's City Planning Commission for four years, took part...
...morning this week a ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard. It was captained by a famed racing yacht skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus...
...sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...