Word: filial
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Howard Lindsay, co-dramatizer of Life with Father, made a touching contribution to a New York Times symposium of filial memories on Father's Day. "Mother spent ten years trying to get the truth out of Father," recalled Lindsay, "then gave up and left...
John's literary skill is at times no match for his filial feeling. According to John's earliest memories (Oak Park, Ill. at the turn of the century): "Papa liked vaudeville! Vaudeville liked Papa!-Papa designed most of Mama's dresses. Most of Mama's dresses were brown!" The first curtain came down with a rush when Wright tired of the role of Papa and walked out on his wife and six children "overnight-he didn't even say goodbye...
Outside of the presidential palace, Miguelito is less filial, more dashing. When Hollywood starlets like Jinx Falkenburg and Jacqueline Dalya trip into town, he entertains them with gay parties, sends them perfume and jeweled trinkets...
Mission to Tokyo. Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand. Flying to Tokyo, the filial emissary had discussions (purely preliminary) with General Douglas MacArthur...
...Navy underwent their biggest command shifts without audible clashing of gears. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King finally resigned as Chief of Naval Operations-the job he had taken in December 1941, with the crack: "When they get into trouble they always send for the sons of bitches." Now his filial job was done. His successor: mild, earnest Chester Nimitz...