Word: clan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Hart; produced by George Abbott). Eccentric families have become common as dirt on the stage. The family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting...
Died. The Mackintosh of Mackintosh (Alfred Bonald Mackintosh), 87, since 1876 the 28th Chief of Clan Chattan; of a heart attack; at Moy Hall, Inverness, Scotland. A strict dresser, The Mackintosh once threatened to resign from the Kilt Society unless white ties with evening kilts were prohibited, black ties made compulsory...
...conservative Ohio State Journal ("Columbus' 'Good Morning' Newspaper"). The Journal is owned by the rich, powerful, publicity-shunning Wolfe family, which also owns all the remaining newspapers in Columbus-the 1? evening Dispatch, the 10? Sunday Dispatch, the 5? Sunday Star.* Reigning head of this clan is paunchy, big-jowled Harry Preston Wolfe, 66, who is reported to have sworn he would run the Citizen out of town...
Worried well-wishers heard that one member of the Stuart clan was at a country dance when rivals appeared, got his gun and danced the rest of the night without turning his back on the crowd. They believed Jesse to be in imminent danger. But they principally feared the pugnacious Stuart inheritance, which may wreck the career of one of the most promising young U. S. poets...
...jeweler to send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become Zog's Queen, made the arduous, chaperoned journey to Tirana, Albania...