Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, in which Martin shares star billing with Sinatra, is one of those pictures that are known in Hollywood as Clanbakes. They are made by Frankie and his friends, a collection of show business characters who are pleased to call themselves The Clan, and if showbuzz-buzz can be believed really are a lot of fun to film. Unfortunately, they are not much...
...there were rumors that it was all a publicity stunt or some other sort of hoax, and indeed that was one of the first avenues of investigation probed by the FBI. Then, too, there was the matter of Frank Sr.'s genial flirtation with a kind of shadow Clan of his own, consisting of high-echelon hoods. No one figured out the connection, if any, but many were prepared to view the kidnaping as something less than the real thing. They were wrong...
...unmixed joy. To the 2,000-odd people of Coldstream, a Berwickshire border village flanked by 5,000 acres of Home's ancestral lands, the news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath his living room, he tore down the 176-year-old castle to get at it. Their family seat today...
...been home to the Homes for at least eight centuries, and they have always been powers in the land. Their rolling farm lands were bestowed on the family by Scotland's King William the Lion in the 13th century. Later, the Homes merged with the powerful Douglas clan and inherited their vast, 50,000-acre estates in the Douglas Valley, 80 miles west of Coldstream. For several centuries, the bold, battling lairds of Douglas and Home fought the English and rustled their cattle. The 4th Earl of Douglas was acclaimed by Falstaff in Henry IV as "that sprightly Scot...
...casual, generally unpolished way, Goldwater pleased his partisans by goading, in turn, the Kennedy Clan and Nelson Rockefeller. "America needs a change," he declared. "Rocking-chair leadership isn't enough. The Republican Party is a party of principle, not the captive of a clan or cult of personality. This is not a party controlled by any one man's money. It believes in an executive branch that is an equal partner, not a ruthless boss; in a judicial branch that is equal and independent, that interprets laws but does not make them...