Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from the University of Edinburgh, Jenny Lee, who is entitled to practice law but teaches school instead, proved a most formidable antagonist, took...
...Fleming H. Revell Jr., wealthy-Manhattan church publisher, onetime Yale sprinter (100 yds. in 9⅓ sec.), issued with his 16-year-old daughter Muriel from the house of his octogenarian father, he was attacked by "my wife, a large, strapping woman." He pushed her aside, dodged her chauffeur, one William Kiefer (named as co-respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident...
...Probably the wife of Zebedee, mother of the apostles John and James (not the author of the Epistle). Not to be confused with Salome, daughter of Herodias, who danced for Tetrarch Herod and asked for the head of John the Baptist. But Dancer Salome could have witnessed the resurrection, since her famed dance took place only 13 months before...
...Wife. Daughter of a beef-colored burgher, who had brewed his way into millions and respectability, Fran was. nevertheless, poised and luminous. She had been to Europe and to an Eastern finishing school; she had born and bred two children; aged 41, she looked a decade younger, for her hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom...
...Fran was not finished with him yet. Her Teutonic lover got bossy, his mother refused to have a divorcee for daughter-in-law. On the steamer, westward bound. Fran took Sam for granted. But when she blithely flirted with new whippersnappers Sam finally balked, rowed ingloriously, took the return steamer to Edith...