Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acre Astor estate, Ferncliffe, is only about ten miles up the river from the 500-acre Roosevelt estate, Hyde Park. As "county families" they were long and well acquainted. The late James Roosevelt, older half-brother of Franklin, married Helen Astor, and her nephew, Vincent, knew James as "Uncle Rosie." Vincent, born in 1891, was nearly ten years younger than Franklin so that, although they knew each other from childhood, they were not at that time good friends. From 1907 on, while Vincent, an ungainly boy, was still in school at Newport, Franklin Roosevelt was already a budding young lawyer...
...your account of the coronation of Henry Pu Yi, you made a statement which I believe to be incorrect. You stated that this young man is the son of a nephew of the old Dowager Empress...
...whom she had loved and wished to marry when she was young. She was forced to marry another man for reasons of state, but never forgot her first love, and it was his grandson whom she placed upon the throne at the death of the Emperor, her nephew. . . . EFFIE M. SMITH...
...lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan...
...know them they represent the glories and the comforts of a vanished era. Sad old Franz Josef I died in 1916 without male issue after his only son Rudolf had been mysteriously killed at Meyerling in 1889. The throne would then have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo in 1914. Although Franz Ferdinand had three children, Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst, the crown went to Franz Ferdinand's nephew, Karl, husband of sober Zita de Bourbon, who was one of the 18 children of Robert...