Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...comedy, treating the problem of a mother-in-law's position in the household of her married children. "L'Intruse," a mystical drama by Maeterlinck, is a gloomy scene, in which an old blind man seems to be aware by some supernatural power that death is very near his daughter who is ill. The last play is a typical French farce. A young man pretends to be deaf to win the good graces of the father, also deaf, of a young lady whose hand he wishes...
...near death's door; it is said that there has never been a moment of buoyant humor in his writing since that time, and hence he has been subjected to much criticism. But few people know, Mr. Bangs said, the cause of that change. Rudyard Kipling had a little daughter to whom he was greatly devoted. When he fell ill, he was unconscious for fifteen days, during which time his daughter was suddenly taken sick and died. Kipling's first request upon gaining consciousness was for his daughter, and he had to be told that she had died ten days...
Such persons assume that since the number of men approximates the number of women and since practically every women is the wife, daughter or sister of some man, the interests of every women are identical with those of her male proxy-elector...
...differences in opinion between men with identical interests as to what those interests are and how they may be best protected, unless we deny intelligence to women we must accept it as inevitable that there may exist the same differences of opinion between men and women,--between father and daughter, husband and wife, brother and sister. And unless we wish to contend further that women's opinions are inferior to men's we cannot but conclude that to confer the expression of opinion by the ballot exclusively upon the male sex is as absurd as it is unjust...
...Fogg Art Museum has received, as an anonymous loan, an important painting by Sir Henry Raeburn, the greatest of Scotch painters. The picture is a portrait of Mrs. Henry Veitch, a great grand-daughter of Annie Laurie. It was painted in 1807 or 1808, and represents the artist at his best. It is not certain how long this masterpiece will remain at the museum, but it probably will not be removed until next Wednesday. There is a possibility, however, that it may be necessary to return the picture to its owner early tomorrow...