Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped off her train for a drink of water with her seven-year-old son, who got lost, the officials phoned round, soon reported that her boy had been located, found her sobbing afresh because the train had gone on its way, carrying her luggage and five-year-old daughter...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...
...long, hardly conventional weekend from college, the Aga Khan, Harvard senior, flew to London, stopped at The Cygnet's House finishing school to call for 17-year-old Sylvia Casablancas, daughter of a Mexican businessman. Driving on to Woburn Abbey, the Aga and his possible Begum quietly visited his aunt, the Duchess of Bedford...
...Havana representative of Phastkleaners, a vacuum-cleaner company. Just now he is pushing their new Atomic Pile Cleaner, and business is slow. Like many a Greene male, Wormold is physically unimpressive. He limps. His beautiful wife ran away with an American years before, leaving him with a beautiful daughter now 16. Without religious props himself, he is bringing up Milly as a strict Catholic just as he had promised her mother he would. He has almost no money. Nothing really matters to him except Milly's future...
...from Judy, and love and tragedy with Brenda Marshall, a heroine as high-minded as himself. The third dream sweeps Johnny on to fulfillment as the senior pilot of Aus-Can Airline and to the faintest hint of incest as, all unknowing, he falls in love with his own daughter. But sex in a Shute novel is so aseptic that this episode could scarcely offend an encampment of campfire girls...