Word: clan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could only listen by radio to President Roosevelt's speech and feel a quickening in his old heart when the Constitution Hall audience arose and sang a famed hymn which he himself had written: Where cross the crowded ways of life, Where sound the cries of race and clan, Above the noise of selfish strife, We hear Thy voice...
Eldest Daughter Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong is the Sibyl of the clan. She approved the hot haste in which Old Charlie married off Second Sister Ching-ling ("Happy") to First President Sun. Years later when Dr. Sun was dead and when Generalissimo Chiang, once a secretary of Dr. Sun, had conquered all China, "Pleasant" said: "We Soongs can make much of this man." Though he was a Buddhist with concubines and the Soongs are Christians, she approved when Chiang put aside his concubines and married Youngest Sister Mei-ling ("Beautiful"). Meanwhile "Pleasant" herself had married the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...Atholl Highlanders, numbering about 500 Murraymen, get into their uniforms for great occasions but have no barracks or permanent organization in peacetime. In Wartime the Dukes of Atholl have the feudal right to levy additional troops from the Clan, uniform and equip them. They wear the Murray of Atholl tartan of blue and green squares, divided by thick black bands shot with...
...present incident, Mr. Robert Choate, the Herald's managing editor, has again exhibited that reckless courage which is the badge of his clan. He realized full well, of course, that a very large portion of his readers would take unreasoning offense, charging that the Herald had ventured, without provocation, into a field about which it knew little. He must have known that others would suggest, unjustly, that he had hoped to please thereby the good people of Chelsea, Dorchester, and East Boston. But Mr. Choate stoically disregards arguments so patently prejudiced. He prints what he thinks. He deserves his reputation...
...sisters-in-law. Old Mrs. Hallam is disturbed because she senses Stella's antagonism. When young Jerry Hallam-defined as a maverick by the fact that he is studying architecture-begins taking an interest in Stella, it looks as though Victor's addled-headed loyalty to his clan would soon produce an ugly situation. He recovers his presence of mind just in time for a reconciliation with Stella, a few sharp words to his meddling relatives. Curiously, Another Language suffers from the same fault that was in the cinema version of The Silver Cord-overemphasis. As though...