Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss woman and fellow Communist, Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, gave him a welcome fit for a Balkan king. At his disposal was a palace just vacated by ex-King Michael's Aunt Elizabeth, who had decided to avoid Communist Ana's iron mop by following her nephew to Switzerland. Between champagne toasts and speeches brimming with declarations of love for Soviet Russia, Pauker and Dimitrov signed, in behalf of their countries, a 20-year pact of alliance...
...farm family named Bromark. It is rather like, if rather worse than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...
...suggest, if the plot demands it, a man who is delicate, ill, or even morally weak. Peck appeals, as a very popular male star must, to both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber. Men also immediately like him and wish him well; they feel that he is, in fact, an average human being-luckier, better looking and more gifted than they, but essentially one of themselves...
Died. Henry James, 68, winner of the 1930 Pulitzer prize for biography (Charles W. Eliot), eldest son of Pragmatist-Philosopher William James, nephew and namesake of Author Henry James; of a heart ailment in Manhattan...
...actors. The producers of Nickleby have permitted Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway & Co. to tear into their meaty parts with about as much finesse as a pack of jackals. Still, this particular melodrama-which intersperses the quarrels between a vicious uncle and his virtuous nephew with a savage attack on the schools of Dickens' day -scarcely deserves better treatment...