Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People's Republic of Poland." Most juvenile prostitutes Lastik describes as the victims of "the prudishness of many persons emphasizing their 'socialism.' " He found that "over 80% of prostitutes were from working-class or peasant families which are pitiless for every moral slip. The unfortunate daughter is expelled from her home and her fellow workers turn against her." The syphilis rate is more than twice what it was in Poland three years ago, largely because "after the official statement that prostitution had been liquidated a number of venereal disease dispensaries closed down...
Sense of Place. Louise's ride on the carrousel was nearly over. Her oldest son. Willie, was killed in a riding accident at his French chateau. Daughter Eva married an Italian count who proved to be a blackmailer. And on a summer evening in 1902, Louise sat by John Mackay's bedside and watched as he died of pneumonia...
...knew I'd fish for a daughter. have that patently bizarre quality that Rolfe Humphries satirizes in his line about the cuspidors spitting at the neon morning...
...years after Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon reintroduces the hard-drinking older O'Neill brother, James Tyrone Jr. Jim Tyrone is by now a wholly dissipated, used-up drunk, his last reserves gone with the death of his mother. The sweet, healthy, hulking daughter of an Irish tenant farmer, a virgin who pretends to be a wanton, has long been wildly in love with Jim. The two come together alone one night, but beyond a quickly aborted impulse of drunken lust in Jim, nothing happens. Partly from knowing he must spoil her life by sharing...
Died. Mateel Howe Farnham, 73, novelist (Marsh Fire, Wild Beauty, Lost Laughter, The Tollivers) and prolific short-story writer for women's magazines; in Norwalk, Conn. Daughter of the late Author-Editor-Philosopher Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, Author Farnham won a $10,000 prize for her first novel, Rebellion (1927), describing a girl's breakaway from a tyrannical father, once (1934) wrote TIME: "I did write a novel about a rebellious daughter and an old-fashioned father, but not about this daughter or my own father...