Word: cornelius
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...Cornelius B. Philip of the U.S. Public Health Service has spent a lifetime studying ticks. Like many a biologist who has an intimate understanding of an alien species, Dr. Philip seems to sympathize with his little associates. Ticks are neither beautiful nor intelligent, he reports in Scientific Monthly, but they have a rugged persistence which Dr. Philip admires...
Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius Vanderbilt, most of New York's 400 agreed that it was a most unsuitable marriage. As a great-grandson of the tough old Commodore who built the New York Central, Cornelius Vanderbilt had some claims to aristocracy. Grace's social assets were far more modest. Her father, Richard T. Wilson, was a onetime Georgia farm boy whom well-bred New Yorkers regarded with distaste because he had made his fortune himself and had started it by speculating in cotton while more gentlemanly Southerners were off fighting...
...elder Vanderbilts never really forgave the young couple. Cornelius' inheritance from his father was cut to $1,500,000-though brother Alfred Gwynne, who fell heir to the bulk of the estate, evened things up somewhat by giving Cornelius another $6,000,000. Cornelius' mother, who made little secret of the fact that she regarded her daughter-in-law as a climber, did nothing to ease Grace into the charmed circle of the elite...
...captain. Before he could bring his ship to a stop, the door of the wheelhouse burst open and a crowd of hooded men shoved their way in, pointing submachine guns. One of them, speaking English, ordered the captain to sit on the floor. Another snapped handcuffs on him. Cornelius rushed up from the engine room. The pirates covered him as well. Then all the ship's officers and forecastle hands, seven in all, were herded into an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. cabin in the bow. There was no toilet, little air, and before dawn the pirates painted...
...wheel lashed. The crew searched the ship. Everything that could be moved-the cargo, the crew's razors, even the ship's bill of health-had been taken by the vanished pirates. Only a chart, with the Combinatie's position marked on it, had been left. Cornelius' overworked diesel engine was wheezing at the point of death. The captain ordered a jury sail rigged from deck canvas and pointed his bow back to Tangier...