Word: aunts
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...stranger to the ways of the upper classes. Related to both Charles and Prince Philip, she calls Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia "Mom" and is a cousin of Queen Sofia of Spain. The late Princess Marina of Greece, also known as the Dutchess of Kent, was a great aunt. Hair trimmed and parted to the side Diana-style, Catherine hauntingly resembles the real-life queen...
...this summer she is a star of the new smash movie E.T. But for Actress Drew Barrymore this line of work is a bloodline. So it was easy helping the U.S. Postal Service last week to introduce a commemorative stamp of her grandfather John Barrymore (1882-1942), great-aunt Ethel (1879-1959) and great-uncle Lionel (1878-1954). Even competing with the Great Profile, the left side Granddad preferred to have depicted, Drew effortlessly upstaged, or rather understaged, her famous forebears. The daughter of Writer and Actor John Drew Barrymore, 50, Drew has also already learned how to get more...
...masterpiece of internal disharmonies, with a face-the discomfited scowl, the sudden stabbingly inappropriate smile-like five cats and a bitter Calvinist thrown into a Hefty bag. There was G. Gordon Liddy, the wild hair Nietzsche who held his hand in candle flames. There was Martha Mitchell, the Aunt Pittypat embarrassment and midnight telephone dipso who turned into an oracle...
...100th commencement last week. Ruth Haddock, 90, drove her 1963 Dodge from her home on the south side of town near the depot up to the new school auditorium on the north side of Greenfield. She took in all the proceedings, declared them worthy of her Aunt Nellie, pointed out that there was still peril in luxury and drove back home again beneath scowling thunderheads that were bridged by a double rainbow...
...Travels with My Aunt, by Graham Greene...