Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wisdom & Wine. Before the court were the 1953 cases of Dorothy Krueger Smith and Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority...
Baring-Gould was past 30 when he fell in love with the 16-year-old daughter of a mill hand (she had gone to work in the mill herself at the age of ten). In his first novel, Baring-Gould described the experience: "He felt the peace of his mind was bound up with that little girl. How this had come about he could not tell. And now, his heart was full of strange cravings, his soul yearning with indescribable earnestness for one who was not his equal in station and education...
...ease. He married pretty, well-to-do Athol Estes, promptly moved in with her stepfather, and through the efforts of a friend got a job at Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped in at the First National and found a shortage of $5,557.02 in Will's accounts. Porter fled to Central America, came back when his wife was dying and finally stood trial...
Comes a storm. Landslides block the road. Bridges wash out. The bus stops dead in a pothole. The driver and the daughter end up in a barn. But at the catchall conclusion the driver goes back to his wife, the daughter marries a basketball coach, and the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe...
Nicola's most important asset is a patch of land he can trade for a passage to Canada. He has one nubile daughter named Michela, another one named Sira, who is a mute. On St. Francis' night, when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love...