Word: grandnephew
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Died. Leopold H. Lorraine, 61, a Habsburg archduke, grandnephew of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, who renounced his titles to become a U.S. citizen; an extra in Hollywood, later a maintenance man at the American Screw Co. plant in Willimantic, Conn.; of cancer; in Willimantic...
...long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating whole new Forums in one imperial gesture. Boasted Augustus, Caesar's grandnephew: "I found a Rome of brick and left it marble...
EZRA POUND: "Remove the layers and layers of cloacinal ranting, snook-cocking, pseudo-professorial jargon and double-talk from Pound's verse, and what remains? Longfellow's plump, soft, ill-at-ease grandnephew remains...
...tone is set by Helmuth James, Count von Moltke, a great-grandnephew of the Prussian field marshal whose strategy won the Franco-Prussian war. Moltke was executed at the Plotzensee prison in January 1945 for discussing matters "that are the exclusive concern of the Fuhrer." By his name and rank he could have aspired to any position in Hitler's Reich; instead, he agreed with what his jailers told him at his own trial: "Christianity and we National Socialists have one thing in common, and one thing only: we claim the whole man." Agreeing, he died a whole...
...Grandnephew of Idaho's late, great Senator William Borah...