Word: clannishness
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Floyd County, Ky., whose 55,000 poor, proud and clannish hill folk are mostly descended straight from early English settlers, is such a political museum. Last week 144 Floyd County citizens were running for local office and campaigning (at funerals, churches and front doors) for the August primary. The following pieces of political advertising, run in the Floyd County Times, reflected the old-fashioned tone of the contests...
Among California's clannish winemakers, Louis Petri, 40, has long been marked as a young man headed for big things. Last week, as boss of his family's Petri Wine Co., he more than fulfilled the vintners' expectations. For a reported $16 million, he bought National Distillers' famed old Italian Swiss Colony Wine Co., the nation's third largest producer of domestic wines. In the deal, Petri acquired Italian Swiss's wineries at Asti, Lodi, and Clovis, Calif., bottling plants at Chicago and Fairview, N.J., New York's Gambarelli & Davitto distributing organization...
...when he first arrived in.the Cornish village of Wairleggon in 1931 as the new Church of England rector. A graduate of London University and the Divinity School at Oxford, Rector Densham also proved vigorous, even radical, in his views on God, people and parishes. His 168 parishioners were Cornishmen, clannish and conservative, whose ideas on religion were as fixed and unchanging as the grey rocks that anchored the surface of the moor around them. So, in a way, it might have been predicted from the start that pastor and flock would be a clashing combination...
...civic decisions depend on "what the summer people think"; another is a fishing village where life is only as good as the last herring catch; still another, a thriving granite center 25 years ago, is now an apathetic ghost town. Mrs. Henrichsen's chief satisfaction is that a clannish, clammish people have opened their hearts to her. She prizes most one oblique Maine compliment: "I don't care for you," said a woman on whom she was calling-and Preacher Henrichsen's heart sank. "No," the woman said, "I don't care for you no more...
...Barons are a clannish French family that fled the French Revolution, settled in Delaware, and rose to great wealth and power from a small gunpowder mill on Rising Sun Creek, near the small town of Susquehanna. "Neither the setting nor any of the characters ever existed," says an author's note at the beginning of this novel. But that will prevent few readers from noting a more than surface resemblance between the Barons and the Du Ponts, another clannish French family that fled the French Revolution, settled in Delaware, and rose to great wealth and power from a small...