Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, as Al Draper, George Cohan is not interested in getting intimate with Mazie. He has been informed in the first act that his ward, the daughter of a defunct pal, has been mysteriously murdered. Her debauched fiance has been acquitted in a trial. Al Draper, anxious to bring the murderer to bay, fastens his suspicions upon two girls, one the previous mistress of the acquitted fiance, the other her friend whom he cajoles into sharing an apartment with him in the hope of finding her to be a criminal. The mistress of the fiance of his murdered ward...
...huff, galled by their defeat at The Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel, to pay a tactful, friendly little call on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, just back from three weeks of desperate haggling with Chancellor Snowden at The Hague...
After a 45-minute chat, Mr. MacDonald sped from M. Briand's office to the Gare de Lyons. Before his train chuffed out he talked to French correspondents with unwonted bonhommie. "I couldn't pass through Paris without seeing M. Briand, messieurs!" cried Pere MacDonald while Daughter Ishbel beamed. "Say simply that two old friends have met. The visit was purely personal. My old friend 'happens' -I place the emphasis on 'happens'-to be Prime Minister of France...
Founding. On Aug. 5, 1737, the first edition of the weekly Gazette "containing the freshest advices, both Foreign and Domestick," was printed by William Parkes whose daughter Eleanor later became the mother-in-law of Statesman Patrick Henry. Mr. Parkes described himself as a "Printer, by whom subscriptions are taken . . . at 15 shillings per Ann. And Book Binding is done reasonably, in the best manner." The issues, 7½ in. wide by 12½ in. long, contained but four pages (one sheet folded like letter paper), with two columns on each page...
...Famed in Vienna today is the luggage shop of Herr Golodarbeiter, whose daughter and cashier is demure, brown-haired Lisl Goldarbeiter. dubbed by Galveston, Tex., judges, "Miss Universe?the Most Beautiful Girl in the World (TIME, June...