Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three Robinsons-Joseph Taylor Robinson, senior Senator from Arkansas, Democratic leader; Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of the late Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and Arthur R. Robinson, whom discredited Governor Jackson of Indiana chose out of his Klannish entourage in 1925 to fill out the term of the late Samuel M. Ralston as Indiana's junior Senator...
General Fechet is to the banner born. The fighting strain (French-Huguenot, not Irish) surges through Fechet blood. His uncle quit the U. S. Army after long service, irked with peace, and went to Egypt to fight. The nephew was elevated to the Air Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...
...published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum of scribblings...
...Minthorn heard about a university that Senator Leland Stanford was founding in memory of his son and namesake, down in a meadowy place called Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Nephew Herbert went there, immature, shy, curly-headed, precocious at 17 except in English. Professor John Branner helped him become a prodigious geologist. Also, in that first class at Stanford University, Herbert Hoover had his first taste of politics...
...sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When the sixteen-year-old met the bachelor's nephew, danced with him and kissed him, the man watched it and was happy. When she ran off to "park her girdle" he was made flabby with enjoyment. When a perfume was described as "one of the six best smellers," when a person was described as "the knife of the party...