Word: grandaunts
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...said Susan B. Anthony, 55, in a New York Times interview. "She was a Quaker born and bred, a highly moral virgin, and she lived like an absolute nun. She would have deplored the sexual-freedom aspects of today's movement." Contemporary Susan B. was talking about her grandaunt, Women's Rights Crusader Susan B. Anthony, whose influence she describes in her newly published autobiography The Ghost in My Life (Chosen Books, $5.95). "I spent so many years of my life resenting her and wanting to live up to her," said Susan, who has apparently exorcised her aunt...
...else again. Not that the Duke and Duchess of Alba were ungracious; if anything, they seemed a bit awed. With sweeping Spanish hospitality, they installed her in their Palacio de las Dueñas in the bed room once used by France's Empress Eugénie, great-grandaunt of the present duchess...
...least, that is what the leaves are supposed to do. But very soon the reader is lost in the flickering, apparently patternless shift of focus from decade to decade, family to family, nephew to third cousin to great-great-grandaunt...
...fear Brenda's being spoiled," disapproved her paternal grandaunt, Mrs. Ida Spear of Boston. "I bemoan all this spectacular notoriety...
Considering Dante as an artist and creator, Professor Grandaunt showed that the poet possessed the three factors which combine to make art--conception, selection, and expression--in the highest degree and in nice balance, Dante also offers in this "age of shallow self-expressiveness" a salutary example in "giving to us, by his skill and care in selection, as much by what he withholds as by what he tells...