Word: daughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-three-year-old Mr. McElroy, whose honesty had not been questioned up to last week, first balked, then glumly removed the official insignia and siren from his car and resigned. This shocked Kansas City as thoroughly as did the 1933 kidnapping of his daughter, Mary, for whom he had to pay $30,000 ransom. When he was renominated last year, he started to "accept" before the council had actually elected him, set Mary to laughing (see cut). Last week he tried to laugh off his unfunny predicament by telling an inquiring reporter how the McElroy lawn was doing. Boss...
...more cause of friction is personal dislike between the House of Savoy and the Ciano family. II Duce's favorite daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, does not even rate as a royal lady in waiting, is ignored by Queen Elena. Moreover, it was Count Galeazzo Ciano and the scheming Edda who were personally active in bringing Italy into the German alliance, and who have since been working for a social revolution in Italy along the lines of the Nazi one in Germany. Before Adolf Hitler came into power, Benito Mussolini was willing to let things in Italy go on pretty...
Meraud Guinness (pronounced Merode Ginnis) was the eldest beautiful daughter of the beautiful Mrs. Benjamin Guinness of New York and London. At the celebrated ball given by the Guinnesses for their servants in 1926 at their town house in London, Meraud and her sister, Tanis, entertained with songs & sketches. They and their innumerable cousins of the rich and fecund Guinness family (brewing) were chief among the Bright Young People whom Evelyn Waugh parodied in Vile Bodies. One of their inventions was the Treasure Hunt-a fad which began by perturbing nocturnal London, traveled to the high schools...
Engaged. Patricia Ziegfeld, 22, only daughter of Cinemactress Billie Burke and the late Florenz Ziegfeld; to William Stephenson,* 26, dance instructor; in Hollywood...
...lusty bad advice of his pal Jeff, frightens Julia away in a blundering attempt at seduction. At a Park Avenue party, with a girl who is willing, luck is again against him. That summer he goes to Mexico to visit his uncle, falls in love with the daughter of a U. S. businessman, again, after listening to more bad advice, bungles the attempt...