Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholm, via London, President Roosevelt last week sent New York's Laurence Adolf Steinhardt, nephew of famed, orchidaceous Lawyer Samuel Untermyer who was once a Tammany braintruster. While U. S. Minister at the court of King Gustaf V. Mr. Steinhardt was expected to set up the liaison which might bring Soviet Russia recognition from...
Kidnapped for $250,000 ransom was John J. O'Connell Jr., 24, nephew of Albany County, N. Y., Democratic Bosses Edward J. and Daniel P, O'ConnelL...
With Thompson Buchanan Jr. the Seesodia-Warlikers went to Ontario, closely followed by Mrs. Buchanan-Warliker's brother who also laid claim to his young nephew. Before an Ontario Supreme Court Judge last week was the Solomonic question of turning the youngster over to his Hollywoodish father, his coffee-colored stepfather or his socialite uncle from Chicago...
...past president of the Association of National Advertisers), and Third Son William M. Bristol Jr. as secretary. ¶Dr. Porter's Drug Store in Greensboro, N. C. gave the world two famous things. Behind its prescription counter labored a druggist named Lunsford Richardson, William Sidney Porter (nephew of Dr. Porter ) was one of his clerks. Clerk Porter soon went forth into the world and produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being a dyspeptic gentleman who with just cause abhorred ipecac (then the common...
...seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting for him to die, watching their chance to put him in an institution. When they heard that his granddaughter Louise was coming back to the farm they were alarmed, afraid that Grandpa would change...