Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stolen: Diana Churchill Sandys's jewelry-including her engagement ring. Winston's eldest daughter (Mrs. Duncan Sandys) lost some $4,000 worth of the stuff to burglars who turned up at the door with buckets and washrags, announced that they were window cleaners, were promptly admitted, promptly went to work cleaning...
...Duke & Duchess of Montoro, married last fortnight in a Seville ceremony surrounded by a splendor of plush and fine feathers (TIME, Oct. 20), arrived in Manhattan on their honeymoon, looking glad to be out of it all even if they were the daughter of the Duke of Alba and the fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor...
...Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked the girl from his factory. On another occasion, Mr. Birling's daughter got her dismissed from a shop. The daughter's fiance had had an affair with the girl; so had Mr. Birling's son, who got her with child; Mrs. Birling had refused her charitable...
Died. H. Estelle Rornaine Manville, 73, socialite widow of Asbestos King H. Edward Manville; following a brain operation; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Widow Manville, enormously proud of daughter Estelle, who married the King of Sweden's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, was not at all proud of nephew Tommy Manville, who was having wife-trouble as usual last week (with...
...Francis Otto Matthiessen, Novelist James's ablest critic, has carefully pieced together "the biography . . . of a family of minds." "Autobiography" would be more accurate; most of the book consists of essays and letters (some never before printed) of Henry James Sr., sons William and Henry and little-known daughter Alice...