Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More and more he spent his time away from his office and the Senate floor, preferred to devote himself increasingly to his new wife Jean-his attractive ex-office assistant-and their adopted baby daughter, now five months old. Joe appeared frequently at the hospital in Bethesda, was treated for a variety of ills. He lost weight, with his wife's devoted help tapered off on drinking after doctors told him that he had cirrhosis of the liver. But it was too late to go back: Joe McCarthy was a sick man. Once capable of frenetic energies, he found...
...take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there will still be music. His 19-year-old daughter plays the flute, his 17-year-old son the clarinet, the nurse a flute clarinet, his wife the bassoon. "It is an odd combination," says Piatigorsky, rolling his sad, spaniel-brown eyes. "Sometimes when I come in with my cello in the little parts assigned to me, I am told...
Born. To Mimi Benzell, 33, bubbling former Metropolitan Opera soprano turned supper club and TV singer, and Concert Manager Walter A. Gould: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Jennifer Alicia. Weight...
...Labyrinths. The plot slithers like a water moccasin through the canebrakes among four narrators and unnumbered previous Faulkner books; it more or less turns around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that...
...true, in a word, English, Major Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour and a half of historical rance, during which the heroine says, "Perry (Geoff's younger brother), I've tried so hard not to; oh, but I do love...