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...gesture of protest. He still maintains his deadpan cool when his father and brothers propose that Ruth stay on and earn her keep by working for them as a part-time whore. She agrees, her husband leaves, and at play's end the white-maned patriarch of the clan is sobbing at her feet, begging for a kiss...
Crypto-Communist. An aristocrat by birth and education (Oxford), he is also one of Scotland's leading socialists. Although MacLeod was chosen as Moderator of his church in 1957-the sixth member of his clan to hold the office-many of his fellow Presbyterians grumble that he is either a crypto-Communist or a Roman Catholic in disguise...
...Kennedys of Massachusetts may be a mighty clan, but the Udalls of Arizona are a whole private army...
Bing plays host for the Crosby clan, Bob Newhart, Cyd Charisse and Kate Smith on a Christmas special...
...comparable dynasty in Victorian England who displayed Winthrop's early-blooming symptoms of rebelliousness and high living would have been packed off to colonize Kenya or repel the Pathans. It took more than familial pressures to part Fourth Son Winthrop from the Manhattan fleshpots and the clan's Pocantico Hills domain in suburban Westchester. The incentive came from within...