Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Hampton, L. I. Stuyvesant Fish, 14, nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education...
Married. K. M. James ("Jimmy") Lin, 27, post-graduate student at Ohio State University, nephew and adopted son of China's President Lin Sen; and Viola Brown, 24, Columbus, Ohio 5?-&-10?-store clerk; in Ashland, Ky. Said Father Lin: "I disapprove...
Because Rubberman Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, sometime physician, had been dead 18 years, no one at B. F. Goodrich Co. realized that a chunky, broad-shouldered young man who reported for work at the Akron factory one day in 1906 was the founder's nephew. James Dinsmore Tew, just out of Harvard and anxious to prove his worth, did not take the trouble to remind his employers that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise...
...dying physicist, who is as essential to this school of film as the corpse to a murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest...
Most remarkable feature of Albert and the Belgians is its cool and friendly probing for the secret of Albert's personality. Nephew of Leopold II, whose exploitation of the Congo brought down international censure upon Belgium and whose dissolute private life outraged his subject,. Albert had not expected to rule. The death of his moody older brother put him in line for the throne. Albert possessed many of the characteristics of his grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times...