Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robust charm and self-assurance recall Alexandra's father, the Duke of Kent, who was killed in a wartime plane crash when she was five. Left with a lessthan-princely income, the duke's widow, handsome, Greek-born Princess Marina, raised her children modestly. "Puddy," as her daughter is still known to intimates, was the first royal princess to attend boarding school, later took up nursing at a children's hospital. The slim, green-eyed Maid of Kent tickled Londoners by wearing her mother's hand-me-downs and driving a Mini-Minor-and worried them...
Newest name to be linked with Eliza beth Taylor is, of all people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...
...father (the Post Toasties king) designed a player piano in 1891 and his daughter's fascination with the contraption made her more of an impassioned listener than a player. "Why take music lessons," she reasoned, "when I could play anything I liked and it all came out so beautifully on that marvelous thing?" With four lavish homes, a private jet plane and a blue book full of friends to divert her, she still makes sure that she has time, interest and money enough left over for the symphony. The Music for Young America concerts are her proudest philanthropy...
...Excluding about 20,000 girls from the Continent who live with a family to learn English, are given their board but no wages, and are theoretically expected to do no more chores than a daughter of the house...
...Delaney, then a semiliterate 18-year-old, gave tongue richly and scathingly to her bitterly impoverished girlhood in industrial Lancashire. Out of her background, she dramatically distilled a kind of urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter added fresh scenes to the eternal duelogue of parent and child. At 21, she turned again to the short and simple annals of the poor, which, in her vision, are long and squalid...