Word: clan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of Delaware there are two clans which are really potent. They fight occasionally, but usually they divide the political machinery of the state between them with a casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been...
...Thomas Francis Bayard, father of the present Senator, was the greatest of all the clan. In 1861 he made a speech which is said 'to have kept Delaware from seceding from Union. He was a Senator (1869-85), a Secretary of State and first U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell Dobie-The John Day Co ($2). Adrienne was a child of love, conceived in lyric sin. Her mother was Elizabeth Sinclair of the amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like...
...game with Springfield College, 2 to 2, and the Seconds and Freshmen kept the balance even with one victory and one defeat. The Freshman team won decisively from Tabor Academy, although the score was only 2 to 1 while the Second University eleven played a hard losing game against Clan Lindsay which ended with the score...
...games will be played on Soldiers Field. The Freshmen will be the first to play at 1.30 o'clock; the Seconds will meet Clan Lindsay an hour later, and the University game will commence at 4 o'clock...