Word: aunt
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...until the week before Christmas." Other holiday trappings have gone out the window altogether. Several years ago, the couple stopped swathing the house in knickknacks and frills. This year, they're eliminating Christmas lights. Gift purchases have also been reduced. Instead of giving presents to every last cousin and aunt, they give charitable donations in the names of a few close relatives. The Dear Santa lists made by their two sons, ages 3 and 8, are limited to three gifts each...
...tell you may not be the first thing on your mind right now. In all likelihood, you’re sitting in some dining hall, worrying about things like final exams, the split presidency of the Undergraduate Council, how Ryan is going out with Seth’s half-aunt, and whether arson would be a good way to “prank” the Yale Bowl...
...says, that they knew could lead to death. In his amused telling today, their escapades sound almost as if they could be ripped from the pages of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?except that the punishment for getting caught would not be a few lashes with a belt from Aunt Sally but execution...
...burgoening music taste, my aunt and uncle from California sent me Blonde and Blonde, a more sophisticated Dylan album, for my fifteenth birthday, along with a Janis Joplin CD. I took to Janis more at first; after all she was better for holding my hairbrush like a microphone and screaming along. But the Dylan crept up on me, with quirky lines like “Mona Lisa must’ve had the Highway Blues, you can tell by the way she smiled,” which struck me as incredibly witty—and true. When he sang...
...DIED. PRINCESS ALICE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, 102, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; in London. Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch, she married Prince Henry, brother of the Queen?s father King George VI, in 1935. Though her husband died in 1974, she kept up a busy schedule of official royal duties and charitable work into...