Word: clan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More optimistic members of the Yardling clan are already predicting an undefeated season for their high-riding hockey sextet, which boasts five ringing triumphs without a blemish for its '47-'48 efforts...
Died. Gerard Barnes Lambert Jr., 35, only son of Yachtsman Gerard B. Lambert, former president of the Lambert (Listerine) Co. and onetime executive chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; in an air crash; near Bryce Canyon, Utah (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Gerard Jr. was the fourth of his clan to be killed in an airplane crash (1927: cousin James T. Walker Jr.; 1929: cousin George Lea Lambert; 1939: cousin Samuel B. Lambert...
...office, he was engaged in the most stirring of his official privileges-presiding over the annual convention of the A.F.L. Standing on the stage of San Francisco's echoing Civic Center auditorium, he could look out at and appraise the great men of U.S. labor's oldest clan-the hard-eyed and corpulent satraps in serge suits and blucher shoes, the sleek attorneys, the jovial bully boys, and all the delegates, great & small, from all the temples and parishes of craft unionism...
...Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island looked like home. They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...
Guest of honor was spry, 69-year-old, Mrs. Flora MacLeod, 28th chieftain of the MacLeod clan, who had come all the way from Scotland's Isle of Skye for the doings. Dressed in tribal tartan, the MacLeod of MacLeods watched the clansmen in sword dances, Highland flings. With another kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place...