Word: clan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examples fits the history of the distinguished James clan. The founder was an immigrant who grew rich after the Revolution. His son Henry had depressions, suffered greatly, finally reached a religious philosophy. One of the grandchildren landed in the hospital with manic-depressive psychosis. Two others were a famed psychologist and a famed novelist. (William James suffered for years from severe depression...
...their children, and the husbands and unmarried brothers of these. . . . [Often] the camp is expanded to include female first cousins or even women more remotely related, together with their husbands and children. But in any event a basic rule is observed-the women in a camp belong to one clan. . . . When a man marries, he goes to his wife's camp, builds her a house, and moves in. Later on, if the two of them do not get along, a divorce is effected simply by the husband's . . . moving...
Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan...
...fourth son of one Sanjuro Matsuoka and a woman who at 90 still lives in the Yamaguchi countryside. The story goes that Yosuke Matsuoka's family is of the Choshu clan-one of the two daimiates, or fiefs, of western Japan (the other is Satsuma), which less than 20 years before his birth had led in the destruction of Japan's feudalistic shogunate, and which emerged dominant in the Japanese Army. Whatever the truth about this glowing connection, Mr. Matsuoka speaks of himself proudly as a Choshu...
...primrose path by a seducer. One day, when she was 18, Bandit Cole Younger and five other horsemen rode up to her father's farmhouse in eastern Texas. A big man with steel-blue eyes and fine, curly hair, Cole Younger, with his brothers and the James clan, had staged the country's first bank robbery -in Liberty, Tex., in 1866. He read theology on the side...