Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...
Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...
Married. Barbara Prudence Barnard of Manhattan, daughter of Sculptor George Grey Barnard; and Gordon MacGregor of Manhattan; in Sculptor Barnard's Cloisters (personally collected group of medieval art), a branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
Married. Virginia Waddill Shepherd of Richmond, Va., step-daughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen); and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer; in Richmond...
Died. Michael Michaelovitch Romanov. 68, Grand Duke of Russia, cousin of Nicholas II, son of the late great Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevitch (1832-1909); in London, where his daughter Nadejda is the smart Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince George Mountbatten, potent kinsman of George V. Once used to an income of five million dollars. Grand Duke Michael had recently been employed in the British civil service at a salary...