Word: clan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae which transcends plot, bursts the bonds of the established theatre and mounts into the stratosphere of great literary lunacy...
...famed as the author of one of the least gallant letters a prospective bridegroom ever wrote about his future wife. On March 26, 1872, the young grandson of John Quincy Adams informed an English friend: "The young woman calls herself Marian Hooper and belongs to a sort of clan, as all Bostonians do. . . . She is certainly not handsome; nor would she be quite called plain, I think. She is twenty-eight years old. She knows her own mind uncommon well. . . . She talks garrulously, but on the whole pretty sensibly. She is very open to instruction. We shall improve...
...years seldom produces a genius. Nevertheless two living Emmets of the third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
...before you other readers turn away with an aside about lucky Irishmen, you had better try to find your name in the list below. There's still $1800 that is not going to the clan of Murphy, and it will be divided among men with the following names: Baxendale, Borden, Downer, Haven, and Hudson...
Josiah Quincy, Jr., in bringing to a close the celebraties of Harvard's Bicentennial, in 1836, made the following prediction: "A century will soon roll away, and there will be another clan-gathering of the sons of Harvard. They will come rushing, as it were, on the wings of the wind, from every quarter of our land . . . Creatures of a day, it is delightful to multiply our associations with that distant time. In this spirit, the banner that floats over us has been prepared. It will be deposited among the archives of the University. Our hope is, that a century...