Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Longstreet married Helen Dortch in 1897, when he was 76 and she was 34. They met at Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., where she was a classmate of his daughter's. The General died in 1904, and his widow survived him by 58 years...
Both the journalist, Jean, and the pastry-chef, Roger, are employed by the same sympathetic family which refuses to share the village's hatred of the French. Jean thinks only of escape, even if it means disgracing the family's young daughter; Roger refuses to join him at the expense of the family which has befriended them...
...rear end of a donkey in a provincial production. She has a kind of elementary female beauty-big hips, small breasts, long, delicate face-that is seldom seen on the modern screen, and she plays with delicious naturalness and a wonderful wild freedom of feeling. She understands that the daughter is no ordinary heroine. Author Delaney has created a wise child who knows its own mother and is fearlessly determined to know herself, to know life: a female hero, Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...
...that rises from too many passages in her book. Generally skillful in her long treatment of Jenny Lind's American tour, which culminated in the singer's marriage to her accompanist, Author Schultz is often grossly sentimental in her account of Jenny's early life. The daughter of a debt-ridden, often jobless man named Niklas Lind, Jenny was born out of wedlock. She was discovered and sent trilling her way to fame when a passer-by who had connections at Stockholm's Royal Theater heard her singing songs...
...Barsetshire (Novelist Trollope's invented county), pointing out the locations of the great houses and offering, if one cared to know, an exact route from the village of Little Misfit to the town of Winter Overcotes. The title might be Enter Sir Robert, The Duke's Daughter or even Love Among the Ruins, but the contents never varied. There was always just enough plot to hold together a succession of chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always...