Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first good look the world had of the sisters together was when they stood side by side at their father's coronation, wearing identical robes of royal purple, trimmed with ermine. Reporters, cameramen and radio commentators were fascinated at the sight of six-year-old Margaret yawning, stretching, tapping her silver slippers, riffling through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick...
...only one minor difference left: one day Elizabeth will probably be Queen and she, in all likelihood, will not. For Margaret that difference means only more freedom for herself. She may marry whomever she pleases (provided, of course, that he is not a Roman Catholic, that she gets her father's permission if she is still under 25, or, failing it, gives a year's notice to both houses of Parliament). She may go where she likes (provided it is decorous, proper, dignified and offends nobody). As heir to the throne, Elizabeth will continue to carry the heavy...
...found there were new worries. The President was soon so preoccupied with national problems, said she, that he had scant time for the troubles of his sons. They discovered, to their resentment, that even they had to make appointments to see him. One of them who went to his father for advice was startled to have the President hand him a paper and say: "This is a most important document. I should like to have your opinion on it." The indignant son told his mother: "Never again will I try to talk to father about anything personal...
...From his father-in-law, A.P. inherited a directorship in San Francisco's Columbus Savings & Loan Society. He soon clashed with other directors over their policy of lending only to a favored few, and walked out in a huff to found the Bank of Italy. It became known as a lender to the little...
...Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...