Word: clan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galleries. The smart and art sets were gathered, 500 strong, for a gala tea. There was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. For him especially this was an important event. It was the opening of an exhibition...
...spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging and second by crackles wide enough to have rubbled into them the grime of spurious centuries. Modern Satsuma when offered frankly as such is generally an excellent buy in Japan, reflects ever fresh glory on the ancient Clan Satsuma. It was this clan of statesmen and warriors (for pottery making is but a Satsuma sideline) which Japanese suspected last week of a deft and daring move to dominate the Empire by wangling into office the present Cabinet...
Prize was "From a Southern Mountain." Further evidence of the research he has done with local folk music is his more recent Mountain Song, an opera which has to do with a clan of fighting moonshiners...
Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...
...Hapgood, onetime editor of Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's International, Envoy Extraordinary &; Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark under President Wilson, dramatic critic, author, turned himself into a radio announcer, to advertise the soups of Columbia Conserve Co., famed for its conversion by the Hapgood clan into a social ized industry where employes own 51% of the common stock (TIME, July...