Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hussein went blithely ahead with his plans to fly off in his own de Havilland Dove via Kuwait. Teheran and Istanbul to Rome, where he will pick up a car to drive to Switzerland. His brother. Crown Prince Mohammed, flew to Switzerland from Amman two weeks ago; his mother, daughter and sister and other brother are already there-leaving not one member of his immediate family in Jordan, and all affairs of his kingdom in the hands of a regency council of honorable nonentities...
...reply, the tax inspector explained that Witte had forgotten to deduct 200 guilders for expenses incurred in getting outside work. "Nonsense," snapped Witte. "My wife helped somebody with housekeeping, and I tutored a neighbor's daughter in mathematics and bookkeeping. We didn't spend a cent getting the work...
...West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along with a whopping dowry. As for Germaine, she wanted to cultivate "the intellectual and nervous exaltation" which was her notion of the perfect life. Her husband, she said, was too "correct, sterile, inert" to supply exaltation of any sort. Other men filled...
...their ordinary lives, they dream of rebellion, plots and seductions. Their big day comes when a worried spinster, who lives with an aristocratic family just outside Paris, tells "Valmont" about a plot worthy of Dumas: the haughty old head of the family has locked and bolted his pretty daughter Denise into her bedroom and will not let her out until she swears to break off an affair with a middleaged, married antique dealer. Will nobody rescue Denise and restore her to her beloved...
...sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will-as her three fantastic rescuers discover...