Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smartchat writers remember the parvenu whose Mayfair mansion stands near that of the daughter of George V, King & Emperor. They remember the bathing-suit parties in the swimming pool on the roof, Hatry's passion for ornate bathrooms even at his office, the fact that he nibbled his food like a woman...
...Vatican City last week the sharp-eyed nuns who now inspect the costumes of women about to be received in papal audience,* refused to pass the wife and daughter of Panama's distinguished Foreign Minister J. Demóstenes Arosemena. Flushed and embarrassed these ladies hastily sought a modiste not far from the Vatican, bought gowns with longer skirts and sleeves, returned, were passed by the nuns, knelt and received the blessing of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pontifex Maximus, Pope Pius...
...stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy interior decorator are nauseating; his elder married daughter is verging on adultery; his subdebutante child reeks of alcohol; his undergraduate son is a bumptious...
...Queen. In England a woman once bore a daughter and was later beheaded by the child's father. The woman: prim-mouthed Anne Boleyn. The husband: vain, red-bearded, argumentative Henry VIII. The daughter: Queen Elizabeth...
Authoress Delmar's manuscript is not illuminated with metaphor or stylistic arabesques. She writes her tawdry tale as simply as she might speak it. Daughter of show folks, onetime actress, usher, typist, she enjoys playing chess and ten nis badly, is 24, a mother. She has lived not only in The Bronx, but in Belmar, N. J., Scarsdale, N. Y. She returns from a European trip in November...