Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success stories are always stimulating. Yet if the requirements of American politics make it necessary for a man to have only 25 dinners at home in three years . . . when he has three growing sons and a daughter, then we had better re-evaluate our ideas of success in the American scene...
George Hill, varsity end for the last three years, made one of the most celebrated catches in Crimson football history Saturday, when he married Natalie Nelson, daughter of Swede ("How? Scrambled") Nelson, famed Crimson back of the early...
Tevye had no trouble marrying his daughters off; the trouble was in getting the right, husbands. When a rich old butcher offered to marry his eldest, Tevye had visions of living off his son-in-law. But instead, his daughter became engaged to a poor young tailor. "What kind of a world has this become?" asked Tevye. "A boy meets a girl and says to her, 'Let us pledge our troth.' Why, it's just too free and easy . . ." But Tevye gave in; he, too, had an eye for love...
...second daughter married a radical, a good talker. Tevye poked fun at his son-in-law's ideas, but when his daughter followed her husband to exile Tevye was secretly proud. "Those daughters of mine -when they fall in love ... it is with their heads and hearts, their bodies and souls...
From Hand to Hand. The third daughter brought real trouble: she married a Gentile. Tevye could overlook modern love, even revolutions, but not apostasy. Rising to his dignity as a believer, he sorrowfully banished his daughter from his house. And yet, he wondered, did he do right? Does a Tevye close his heart to his children...