Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Court circles in Rome were agog. The engagement of Princess Mafalda, second daughter of the King and Queen, to Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of the ex-Kaiser of Germany, was announced from the Quirinal. The prospective bride is 22 and the bridegroom...
...notice in your issue of June 8, on an unnumbered page opposite to Page 28, a letter from a grandson and nephew of doctors who objects to your printing an article about an undertakers' meeting under the heading MEDICINE. It happens that my revered father, now dead for many years, was an undertaker. So perhaps I may be permitted to reply. In youth, I attended small business gatherings of undertakers with my father and never found anything to make my "gorge rise." Undertakers render a genuine and necessary service to society and they deserve all the more sympathy...
Loved by reprobate comets, mothered by gypsy women, automobile racers have few ties in the world through which they dash, and seldom acknowledge human kin. But, in the famed 500-mile sweepstakes at Indianapolis last week, Ralph de Palma, veteran driver, had a nephew-a dark diminutive youth with a countenance like a mask bitten out of sandstone by the wind. Uncle de Palma was a trifle worried. The boy was reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo...
Engaged. John T. Pratt Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Pratt (Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, Vice Chairman of the National Republican Ways and Means Committee), nephew of Herbert L. Pratt, President of the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., to Miss Mary Christy Tiffany, of St. Louis...
...Thus the descendants of the Seymour-Hudson union were bastards. Unfortunately for Hertford, he could not prove his story and the Committee accordingly allowed the claim of General Seymour, who became 16th Duke of Somerset; the first was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew, Edward...