Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1920s Long Island's fashionable North Shore society, who had just played host to Britain's bouncing Edward, Prince of Wales, gave a royal welcome to the Grand Duchess. Many of those firmest in proclaiming her authenticity were distant relatives and friends of her supposed family-but one branch, the German House of Hesse, to which the Empress of Russia had belonged, declined to accept the newcomer. The Czar, it was said, had deposited some 20 million rubles in England before the revolution, and the House of Hesse wanted to assure itself a prior right to the money...
...Urbana 25 miles away so the boys could study in good elementary schools and be handy to the University of Illinois. "Everything interested him," says Mark of his father. "Nothing was unimportant. He had no patience with error. Since this TV business started, I got a letter from a distant cousin who said he closed his eyes when Charlie was on the air and he could see my father talking...
...desolate gorge of the Columbia River 85 miles upstream from Portland, Ore., a rescue party was working last week to save one of the most interesting relics of America's distant past. Water, backed up by the great new dam at The Dalles, will soon cover the strange rock carvings in Petroglyph Canyon. No one knows who carved the animals, sunbursts and strange, maplike designs in the hard basalt, or when or why they did it. But the fascinating mystery will never be solved if deep water is permitted to cover the evidence...
Acknowledging that he was the pleased catcher of the bride's bouquet, Chicago Grass Widower Adlai Stevenson, 56, a guest at the recent marriage of his distant cousin Helen Stevenson to New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (TIME, Jan. 28), seemed bleakly bereft of romance, though confessing that he would like to rate as eligible: "I hope the bouquet portends something, but I'm inured to disappointments...
...more traditionally American than he-and yet no other gives a stronger feeling of being an explorer beyond his own land. In Ushant (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952), an indefinable sort of stream-of-consciousness auto biography, Aiken's American steered his way over the Atlantic towards a distant light, amid the crying of seagulls and the clanging of bells-and the same hand is at the helm of Mr. Arcularis. The result is poignant, eerie, fateful, with highly dramatic moments. No other living poet, using heartbeats and a coffin as his props, could convey a grimmer impression...