Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
Excerpts from a letter from the daughter of Thomas Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia, were read at the meeting. The letter compared Czech acceptance of the Communist government to "parched lips trembling at an imaginary well, cool under the palms...
...copybook, Wilson, a moderate drinker and smoker, will keep on walking at least a mile every night for exercise, taking an interest in local government and the Boy Scouts, commuting from Glen Ridge, N.J., where he lives in a seven-room house with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. His new job (salary: over $75,000 a year) will mean no change in his routine, except that "the night force will be seeing a lot more...
...father sent Mirabeau to schools where he had little chance of succeeding, calculating that he could thus make his ultimate destination the reformatory. Mirabeau became a first-rate orator. He also fought, went into debt, seduced his tutor's daughter at 13. When he was 16 his father secured a lettre de cachet for him, applied it two years later...
...high French Alpine village, Corinne Audal has lived for two years with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal...