Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems. Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head of a three-story household whose floors, reading from top to bottom, were occupied by 1) his mother, 2) his wife and daughter Françoise, and 3) his mistress Simone...
...peacemakers. Finally Wayne Morse proposed that the most intemperate salvo of his cannonade be stricken from the minutes. Thus, Capehart is no tub as far as the Congressional Record is concerned. ∙∙∙ At Washington's Griffith Stadium, Vice President Richard Nixon and his Mamie-banged daughter Patricia, 11, showed up for a baseball
Married. Linda Garcia, 22, daughter (and only child) of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia, who took over from the late Ramon Magsaysay in March; and Fernando Campos, 24, a Manila lawyer; in Manila...
Elgar might have remained an obscure provincial composer if he had not been encouraged by his wife, a general's daughter. At 43 he won fame at last with his thunderous oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. As Edwardian England wandered toward World War I, his reputation rose on a great wave of public nostalgia...
...with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she seems to forget the difference between the reality of magic and the magic of reality. Mor's daughter Felicity, hoping to release her father from his enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were you burning? It smells very funny." Most readers will agree, but Daddy is recalled to his responsibilities, the Labor...