Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overnight most of the residents of Whittier recalled that they knew Col. Robins' identity all the time. John C. Dreier. Col. Robins' nephew, arrived from Manhattan, confirmed the identification. The 59-year-old Prohibitionist, wearing a two months' growth of whiskers, clung desperately to his assumed character. He was taken to a sanatorium at Asheville to be treated for amnesia. Mrs. Robins arrived from Florida, reported her interview with her husband thus...
...born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished clubman but a stutterer; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Law Professor Francis Bowes Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Harvard Consultant-on-Careers Augustus Lowell Putnam (nephew); Biologist Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted ex-president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian who, like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy...
Professor Bertram James Collingwood, University of London physiologist, nephew of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), came lecturing to the U. S. to raise funds for a children's "Wonderland Ward" in St. Mary's Hospital. London, as a memorial to his uncle, and for a similar ward in the Babies Hospital of New York's Medical Center. Said he: "I am hoping to find a prominent American lady who will be Chief Cheshire Cat for the Helpers of Wonderland League which we would like to start here to interest children the two projects. In England Mrs. Cecil...
Central figure and near-hero of Wah'Kon-Tah is the late Laban J. Miles, a plump little Indian Agent who went to live with the Osages in 1878, died among them last year. An honest, endeavoring man, a Quaker like his nephew Herbert Hoover, who spent part of his boyhood at his uncle's agency, Agent Miles minded not only his charges' ways but his own, became the Osages' trusted friend. He kept a journal and kept it to himself. One of the ways Agent Miles fought the Indians' inevitable degeneration was by administering...
...adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only a bourgeoise could be, Evelyn knew she was ruining herself by becoming his mistress. But she would not marry him, she was too much older. When Son Dan and Lover Miles became great friends, that complicated things; inevitably increasing quarrels complicated them more. But Evelyn had enough grace under pressure...