Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving among the tables in the Ibis café in Cairo's new Nile Hilton Hotel, pretty Afaf Abou Ali, 22, daughter of a well-to-do Alexandria family and owner of a B.A. degree from Alexandria University, went about her waitress job with more spirit than the job usually gets elsewhere in the world. After all, jobs for long-sheltered Egyptian women have until lately been few and far between, and her $150 a month at the Hilton was three times what she could earn in government work. Besides, there were unexpected fringe benefits: one day a guest...
...world's capitals as well as he knows Urbana (pop. 11,000) and Washington, where his father was a Congressman for eight years. As a boy he worked at odd jobs on Capitol Hill, later got degrees in both arts and law from George Washington University, married the daughter of North Carolina's Democratic Representative Homer Lyon...
...live" was just about the only legacy a Jewish parent in Hitler's Europe could offer his daughter or son. To go alone into a world of tightening snares was a little easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard...
...Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. A witty portrait of the lumbering spinster who was Louis XIV's cousin, against a backdrop of her brilliant and squalid...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess...