Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, Joseph Willard's son had the old five-story building torn down and replaced with a twelve-floor, 450-room French Second Empire structure. With its gilt and marble fixtures, the new Willard was a more refined version of the old. When Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice would light up a cigarette in the main dining room, waiters would hurriedly put a screen around her table...
Elephant Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the region, made a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board...
Before Franco made his move, Juan Carlos made a key decision of his own. Until recently, the prince (and husband of Greece's Princess Sophie, stormy Frederika's daughter) often vowed that he would "never, never" accept the throne as long as his father remained alive. This year, at last convinced that Don Juan could never become King, Juan Carlos began staking out his own claim. The prince still has no assurance, of course, that he will ever assume the throne and, even if the monarchy is restored, Franco has not specified what power it would have after...
...just thinking about what's best for you,' they tell me." One Seattle family sent their daughter to a psychiatrist when they found out that she had dated a Negro, and the parents of another girl turned her over to juvenile police as "ungovernable." Even parents who consider themselves liberals are likely to quail. "My mother is a typical American clandestine bigot," says a New York girl whose family brought her up to be color blind-until she brought home her black suitor...
...under way the debates were arranged by a Nixon aide, who proposed that the debates be held in the homes of each of the nominees with the whole family of each candidate participating. The arrangement quickly fell through, however, when Nixon arranged for a rush marriage of his daughter to the Eisenhower boy and then declared Ike "an intimate member of his family...