Word: kinfolks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby. Later to keep him in school in Chicago, she sends him her wages, sells her silver and furniture. The only time she sees him again is when he comes back to collect the money from the last of her land. At 35, Famie looks like an old woman; kinfolk have disowned her for selling her land; her only friend is a big, serious-minded, coal-black field hand...
...Because of the intense feeling against the General," announced 6 ft. 5 in. Sheriff Evan Harrod of Henry County, "and the murmuring that some of Mrs. Taylor's kinfolk are preparing for any emergency, we are going to be ready to repel any attempt against the General's life...
...licking Southerners at business for a hundred years, but that the South still turned out good doctors, good officers, good lawyers, in such abundance that they could not make a living at home. Dividing his boyhood between Delaware and Virginia, Charles found himself at ease with his easygoing, impractical kinfolk in the South, wary but impressed in the circles of his Northern companions. He fell in love with a series of amiable Virginia belles, formed a deeper friendship with a tall, unaffected girl named Terry Mullikan, loafed at the University of Virginia until he was suspended, shipped on a freighter...
...well had the late Maria Fletcher done, in fact, that last week her white half-sisters and white grandnieces were more than willing to acknowledge their mulatto kinfolk in order to win from the Illinois Appellate Court the right to contest the late Maria's will in the hope of cutting a black foster son out of the late Senator Turner's tidy fortune. Commenting on her family's privy past, Lucian's white Daughter Flavonia Fletcher Coffey cheerfully admitted: "Father was in a good many scrapes...
...Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known...