Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church at Northeast Harbor, where for two score summers he had attended Sunday service, was for the family and for the hardy Maine fishermen whom he had so beautifully memorialized in "The Life of John Gilley." Under shadow of the mountains, within hearing of the surf, his son, his nephew, and his brother-in-law spoke quietly of his life and offered prayer which was more thanksgiving for his work, than mourning for his passing...
...daughter Leah, "the Pearl of Kimberly," mistress of unstinted millions, became involved in a love affair with Woolf Joel (son of her father's nephew, Solomon Joel), quarreled with him (he was shot down later under mysterious circumstances), married and divorced a poor violinist, and has now been married a total of three times to Carlyle Blackwell (U. S.-born, onetime famed British cinema actor) with whom she lives vivaciously in Europe...
...frail old lady rides sometimes about Copenhagen in a limousine that seems far from new. When her motor halts at the Palace of her nephew King Christian X she sits quite still. Her footman, kindliest of Russian servitors, hastens to open the door and helps her to descend. To him she is, will always be, "Matoushka Tsaritsa," ¹beloved wife of the "Little Father" Alexander III and mother of the last Romanov Emperor, Nicholas II. Surely the memories of this once very great lady are stranger, more glamorous, than any fairy-tale by her Danish countryman Hans Christian Andersen...
Harmsworth, nephew of the late Lord Northcliffe (newspapers); to Dorothy Alexander Heinlein, of Bridgeport, Ohio...
...Huntington is much like his uncle, Collis P. Huntington-the Huntington who owned most of the Southern Pacific Railroad, of which he was President when he died, and who passed on most of his shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways...