Word: kinfolks
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...grown wealthy in America, gave him five younger siblings, some of whom spent their lives wondering when Alfred would ever grow up. From his teens onward, when he was drawn to photography and modernism in painting and sculpture, the bourgeois he most wanted to épater were his closest kinfolk. Yet he was free to indulge in bohemian pursuits, secure in the knowledge that his family could, however grudgingly, afford...
...investigations and the disclosures already made would not affect the President's campaign for reelection. "I'm his brother," he said, "but I'm still a private citizen. You know what they say, 'You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your kinfolk...
...heed to the Government's threats, and the rescue navy continued to grow. "They have to say that," shrugged one skipper. Relatives of the refugees were already waiting on Florida's docks with cash in hand, ready to pay the fines in case the boats carrying their kinfolk were seized. Chances are that few if any fines will be imposed or collected. "Look at the dimensions and emotion of all this," said one weary customs officer, waving his hand across the crowded Key West docks. "How could we possibly do anything to stop...
Some of Stewart's songs today reflect a life devoted to kinfolk and lazy afternoons. In Easy People the affection and ennui are all but overwhelming...
...wooded hills of eastern Tennessee, Baker is known to friends and kinfolk as Howard Henry, to distinguish him from his father, who was simply called Howard. The elder Baker served 13 years in Congress until his death in 1964. Since the early 1820s there have been Bakers in that part of Appalachia, where coal mining, lumbering, dairy farming - and poverty - are a way of life Young Baker was strongly influenced by his maternal grandmother, known as Mother Ladd, who succeeded her late husband in 1927 as sheriff of Roane County. She gained notoriety for cap turing two armed bootleggers singlehanded...