Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country of many tribes and little sense of nationalism, old Ibn Saud tried to unify his nation in the traditional Arab way: by "marrying" the daughter of a chieftain for a night. Thus the 1,000 princes are a cross section of tribes; and politics in Saudi Arabia, where no man has a vote, is largely palace politics...
...British Carry On farces (Carry On Nurse, Doctor, etc.). There was really no need to change the title, unless the producers wanted to capitalize on its suggestiveness; this one could just as well have been called Carry On Suburbia. A teen-age girl, charmingly played by Julia Lockwood (daughter of Actress Margaret), writes a scandalous bestseller called Naked Revolt, and the whole town plays the guessing game of matching members of the author's family with their racy counterparts in what is taken to be a roman á clef...
...Socrates and Pluto." Other passengers: Zeb, an old family detainer fond of saying "howsom-ever''; Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass, an engaging purveyor of something called Distilled Essence of Spooju (43% alcohol, 57% swamp water), who strikingly resembles W. C. Fields; and the doctor's nubile daughter Millie...
...matrimonial side," says Van Brocklin candidly, "the players don't do badly, either. To name a few: Ron Waller, an ex-Ram, married the granddaughter of the cereal fortune matriarch, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Ron Miller, after a year with the Rams, took Walt Disney's daughter as his bride and moved into Disneyland. Bud McFadin is the husband of a young lady whose father owns half of West Texas. Bud now runs a dude ranch near Houston. Leon Clarke, the Rams' tall end, wed the heiress to the Beechnut chewing gum, baby food and allied products millions...
Chapman objects to the high cost of musicals, and in the tone you hear certain Southerners say, "Would you want your daughter to marry a Negro?" he asks, "Should our largest production be a musical?" But Chapman says he keeps his tastes to himself, and that "there should be a musical in the Loeb next year...