Word: clan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undertakers in the vicinity, to be kept against the next spring buryings. When the last April mule market closed, the Irishmen put their families into their cars, mostly new ones with trailers, and set out for Mrs. Robertson's. They maintain stoutly that they are not a clan, just a large group of countrymen with a common trade. No one knows how the meetings started, but they have been going on for 50 years. Last week, after appropriate ceremonies, the Irishmen deposited their six bodies in the Mt. Calvary cemetery, had a small drop to celebrate the occasion, broke...
...Baxter. The Baxter clearing is even more remote than that of most crackers, but in his own eyes Jody lives an eventful life. There is no school within reach. His days are spent mostly roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody...
Died. Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington Howard, 81, great-great-grandniece of George Washington, last of the Washington clan to be born in Mount Vernon; of pneumonia; in Alexandria...
TIME, how could you, how could you, how could you! The Lowells are a pretty decent tribe. They condescend to speak to the Cabots. It is the clan of the Cabots who, traditionally, converse only with God [TIME, Sept. 6]. And the word isn't speak-it is talk. I visited the grave of my life-long friend, Dr. John C. Bossidy, and, sure enough, he had turned over. Who could blame...
...Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...