Word: nephew
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...Basque, a nephew of a Bishop of Burgos, Luis Quintanilla was at one time a student at the Jesuit University of Deusto near Bilbao. Before the World War and before he was 20, he lived with the late Cubist Juan Gris in a leaky studio on the Place des Abbesses. Paris, learned to paint, he says, by "talking about it all the time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison...
While in New York the Cambridge team will stay at Columbia University and will use their athletic fields for their practice work-outs. Among the members of the team are J.D. Low, their captain and scrum-half; R. B. Bruce Lockhart, nephew of the author of "British Agent," and P. J. Bateman Champain, renowned as one of the heaviest rugby players in England...
True to his name, the late banker Percy Avery Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr., believed in taking every precaution. Although the last disastrous earthquake in New England was in 1755, in 1908 he built the walls of his Greenwich, Conn, home of reinforced concrete three feet thick, carried $1,000,000 earthquake insurance. Last week wreckers who had contracted to raze the house decided to use dynamite...
...Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles. He gives, in short, a strong suggestion that his childhood opinion...
Last week the circus' executive vice president, young John Ringling North, nephew of the late John ("Three-Ring") Ringling, was inspecting the circus' Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters. Imprudently disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...