Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effectively is make portraits of unfamiliar places. In spite of its melodramatic story and the pidgin-English used by the characters, Romance of the Rio Grande is a highly atmospheric account of the routines of a big Mexican rancho, its noises, difficulties, fiestas. Baxter and Moreno, respectively grandson and nephew of the ranch owner quarrel to see who inherits the layout. A new girl named Mona Maris has a shrill voice and wiry body that suit her role as an orphan-pensioner living on the rancho...
...Mellon (nephew...
...characters (none of which all very well developed), the author has two coldblooded respectable villains, a distinguished authoress, a pure, untainted heroine, a weak-willed mother, a detective, a hero in the form of a nephew of the authoress, and a few minor personages playing lesser parts. In the way of situations, Mr. Reeve has an equally wide variety, none of them wholly credible or real...
...Berengaria she danced with Thomas Mellon (nephew) of Pittsburgh. "I'm not particularly fond of dancing. ... I don't dance at all in London...
...Donald Cadman, nephew of Radio Preacher Samuel Parkes Cadman, drove two thieves out of his father's drugstore at Chappaqua, N. Y., had them arrested, retrieved...