Word: clan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Medill Patterson, the moody genius who had made his raucous New York Daily News the biggest U.S. newspaper, said that the suburbs of New York City wouldn't go for a tabloid "home paper." But daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim had the stubborn streak of all the Medill clan. Eight years ago, in a drafty garage at Hempstead, L.I., she started the tabloid Newsday, to prove her father wrong...
...rest of the story concerns the hero's love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...
...ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed...
...business. From last year's crew only three were still in office, the president, treasurer, and secretary. It was fortunate that at least these three have been lucky at the polls, for their experience will help the Council to carry on the more fruitful projects that the '47-'48 clan never found time to finish...
...Among prominent Roman Catholic families in the U.S., the Murray clan (four large related Murray families and one McDonnell family) ranks in importance with the Raskobs of New York and the Kennedys of Boston...