Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mentioned Dr. Milo Brooks's dilemma caused by the increasing skimpiness of swim suits [TIME, May 30] . . . My daughter's case, may put the doctor at ease . . . She was vaccinated on the bottom of her foot. Result: no visible scars. This is excellent for children who are not yet walking...
Gloucester's mount got out of hand and had to be pulled back into line by two Guards officers. Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly. The King looked around anxiously as his daughter, trimly uniformed as a Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, brought her mount under control. The King walked over to congratulate Elizabeth on her horsemanship. The only other near-casualty reported was a drummer who fainted in the heat and lost his hat. His flanking comrades held him erect until the show was over...
...Miami Beach, the mother of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, announced her pretty daughter's engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, wartime Hump flyer and son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, fast-stepping "Mr. Outside" of wartime West Point football, who long held the inside track with Elizabeth, was now definitely on the outside. Yes, Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece...
...head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score. Il Mondo had been resurrected in Germany in 1932, but had never been produced in the U.S. Leavitt finally found the German version through...
...sleepy little cow town when Hurd was a kid. He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where I feel closest to life...