Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business dealings in a context of an outsiderdom so triumphant that it dwarfed mere kings. The Rothschilds resolutely refused to abandon their religion, even as they became barons and lords as well as collectors of great Christian art. Thus it was a family catastrophe when Nathan's second daughter, Hannah, renounced Judaism to marry a Christian, the younger son of Lord Southampton. The family banished Hannah and considered her dead. The marriage seemed cursed. Hannah's young son died in a fall from a pony. Her husband was passed over by Lord Aberdeen for the post of Secretary...
...carrying out this policy, Boston Latindenied admission to Sarah P. Wessmann, who appliedto Boston Latin with the 1997 ninth grade class.She and her lawyer Michael C. McLaughlin, who hadargued his daughter's case several years earlier,challenged the new policy as beingunconstitutional...
...beginning of the movie, before Dil is ever born. For example, at the baby shower, Tommy's aunt airily tells the expectant mother, "You know what they say: born under Venus, look for a--" before being neatly cut off by her cell phone. And Drew, when his daughter demands to know why she is being left at her cousin Tommy's house for the day, sweetly explains that "Daddy has to work overtime so Mommy won't be ashamed of his corporate earnings...
This Monday Lewis, (the daughter of Dean Harry R. Lewis '68) says her proctor group invited President Neil L. Rudenstine to a study break with a toga theme. Rudenstine not only showed up, but to the group's collective surprise the President also donned a toga and mingled with students for the duration of the gathering...
...pregnant. By the time she tells her doctor dad that she had a baby and put it up for adoption, she knows his secret: the "specials," as he calls some of his patients, are young women who have traveled long distances to get illegal abortions. From there, the father-daughter ironies gather for a stoic conclusion...