Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present surroundings are familiar to me because when I was sent in 1909 from the San Francisco office of the Monterey Lime Co. to get some data on production costs, I spent a week or more at the kilns. A nephew of mine was manager of the lime company until it went out of existence...
...canyon on the small steamer which carried supplies to the lime company's colony and on its return carried the barrels of lime loaded from the wire tram you mentioned. I think the picture must have gone down by mistake because, while my brother and my nephew had living quarters and spent some time there, they never made it their residence...
...well-known) conductor, Viscount Konoye is also brother of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. In Tokyo the Premier's brother's new Butterfly caused no commotion at all. This was because Viscount Konoye, whose family has assimilated easygoing Western ways and whose nephew is captain of Princeton's golf team, scandalized Tokyo society so thoroughly ten years ago by "stooping to become a bandmaster" that all his later doings-including a brilliantly successful U. S. tour last winter, in the course of which he conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra-are considered anticlimactic...
...Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy of Zagreb and then at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him its first prize and gold medal for composition in the year Franz Joseph's nephew Franz Ferdinand happened to get fatefully shot, not in Croatia, but in Serbia. Artist Vanka kept on painting, after the War became a professor of painting at Zagreb's Academy. In 1926 he met Margaret Stetten, the attractive daughter of Surgeon DeWitt Stetten of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital...
Married. Prince Charles Bernadotte, 26, nephew of King Gustaf V of Sweden, brother of the late Queen Astrid of the Belgians; in line of succession to the Swedish throne; to Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, daughter of King Gustaf's Grand Master of Ceremonies, who two years ago divorced her cousin by whom she has three children; in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner, Prince Charles forfeited his rights to the throne, his Swedish title as Prince. He became a Belgian Prince by decree of his royal brother...