Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water; /We ate the cook, we ate the mate, we ate the captain's daughter./The sails grew mould overhead--ha! ha! the fishes laughed,--/We broke into the medicine chest, and all its contents quaffed. Thus the Advocate 85 years...
...convert a Roman Catholic, helped conduct services at a local jail, plunged into the Youth for Christ movement. He lived for a time with fundamentalist families, later moved into a trailer park. Most of all, he longed for his children. Says a friend, recalling how Lavrinc had missed his daughter: "He said he had always wanted a little blonde-headed girl, and now that he had her, he couldn't be with...
...scrolls disclosed an intricate real estate deal in which a government administrator leased several plots to a four-man syndicate which, in turn, subleased the plots among themselves-probably to dodge taxes. A second lease involved a date grove controlled by a rich woman named Babata. When her daughter Shlomzion was married, Babata paid a dowry of 200 dinars. According to the marriage contract, signed in A.D. 133, the bride was guarded against fortune hunters because if her husband divorced her, he was required to pay 300 dinars...
...daughter, badly shocked, survives as a sort of spiritual absentee, her feelings annulled, her values voided. She hardly even seems to know her mother. She cannot even cry. She can only in stunned rote repeat her "disgrace" with the first man she happens to meet. The mother pleads, rages, weeps, despairs. The girl is, as the alienists say, "out of contact." Then comes word that the young intellectual they both loved is dead, killed by the Germans. Sobbing, the two women fall into each other's arms, revived by death, healed with suffering...
Married. Gail Whitney, 22, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Louis Stur, 36, Hungarian-born former economics teacher, now assistant manager of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Lodge, Gail's home since her 1959 divorce from Plymouth Oil Heir Richard Cowell; in Elko, Nevada...