Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aging queen promptly promoted Leicester's stepson, the Earl of Essex, to her old favorite's place. She also gleefully hounded the widowed "she-wolf" until she had got back every penny Leicester owed her. But she kept a soft spot in her heart for her old favorite. On the note that the dying man had sent her from the country, she wrote, "His last letter," and laid it away in a chest beside...
...cheered up when he was given a delousing bath, dusted himself happily with insecticide powder. He said that his name was Stanlius; that he was the stepson of a Russian fighting with the Germans; that he had never shot anybody; and that he was ten years...
Lieut. Richard ("Dick") Carver, General Bernard Montgomery's stepson, captured in Libya, had escaped from a German prison camp and held a new job as "Monty's" aide-de-camp...
Born. To Nilla Shiles Putnam, 30; and Air Forces Lieut. David Binney Putnam, 29, onetime boy explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, etc.), stepson of the late Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: their third child, first son, David Binney Jr.; in Fort Pierce, Fla. Weight...
...jail, Mrs. Thompson explained that her stepson, age ten, said the teacher had kicked him in the back. Friends of shy, timid Zelda Meisels said that was preposterous - she had merely scolded...