Word: daughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Past. The daughter of a Russian Jew buttonhole maker in Manhattan's lower East Side slums, Ruth Laeger, sexually precocious at 8, had been raped by a 55-year old grocer when she was 11. At 14 her mother took her into Children's Court for her continued relations with this man. She spent a year in a reformatory, left with a very bad behavior record. She worked as a department store salesgirl, was arrested for stealing merchandise, received a suspended sentence. Two months later she repeated her offense, went to prison. Released on parole, she consorted with...
...burdened like Mother Britain with a disheartening War debt, pert Daughter Ireland has been stepping out for Prosperity. The business event of the year was of course the virtual completion of President Cosgrave's stupendous German-engineered project for hydroelectrification of the oft sung and storied River Shannon (TIME, Aug. 5). But The Commercial supplies many a significant fact about what has happened since Henry Ford changed his mind about "abandoning Ireland...
...that: The favorite authors of American teachers are the best sellers. Temple Bailey, Gene Stratton Porter and Charles Dickens. Like several million others, they prefer the films to the drama, and musical comedy to opera. They like sacred music, also jazz and love songs. The average teacher is the daughter of a small business man, a skilled workman or a farmer; her average sister is a stenographer, a nurse or a clerk. Her average sources of average pleasure are picnics, amateur plays and basketball games. She goes to church; she washes dishes; she likes literary societies...
...Paulina, daughter of Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives, granddaughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, celebrated her fifth birthday by going to the House gallery for the first time. Noting her appearance, the representatives rose, faced her, applauded. Excited by the tumult, she giggled, clapped back at them, had to be told to drop her hands...
...Glycerium dies too, in childbirth; the queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once spoke for herself with no one to hear it but the sea: "Stranger, near this spot lies Chrysis, daughter of Arches of Andros: the ewe that has strayed from the flock lives many years in one day and dies at a great age when the sun sets...