Word: grandnephew
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Died. Samuel Johnson Poe, 69, Baltimore lawyer, grandnephew of Poet Edgar Allan Poe, eldest of Princeton's famed six footballing Poe brothers; of heart disease; in Washington...
...teacher of Godfrey Rockefeller, 8, great grandnephew of John D. Sr., at the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Day School, told her class last week to prepare a short story. That night Godfrey slept at a friend's house, plotted an early start West for story material. At 3 a. m.. Godfrey & friend, dressed in sombrero and Buffalo Bill belt, tiptoed out and legged it up the cold & windy Boston Post Road. Soon a police car pulled up, took them to the station house as homeless waifs. After they had given their names and before they were returned to their...
Somewhere in its dazzling square mile of yellow-tiled buildings, Henry Pu Yi was born, son of the favorite grandnephew of the ancient Dowager Empress who made him heir to the Dragon throne of the "Great Pure" dynasty and all its treasures. In its interminable throne halls, temples, palaces, marble courts and concubines' quarters the Boy Emperor lived. Except for U. S. and European soldiers who looted it during the Boxer Rebellion, not 20 white men in the world had set foot in that forbidden preserve until the fall of the Empire in 1911. Until 1911, it contained...
Born. To William Larimer Mellon Jr., grandnephew of the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and Grace Rowley Mellon; a son; in Pittsburgh...
Divorced, Josephine Armstrong Gwynne, onetime Patou model, grandniece of Confederate President Jefferson Davis: and Erskine Gwynne, socialite U. S. expatriate, editor of the French review Bonlevardier, grandnephew of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Paris...