Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, comfortably settled in a small apartment, where her nephew, Raymond Clerisse, a young French lawyer, sometimes dropped in for an apéritif. One day Marga had an especially pleasant visit from Raymond. As he was going, she pressed a small piece of candy into his mouth. "Merci," said Raymond and departed. Later he was seized with fearful cramps. He had just enough strength to scribble on the back of a métro ticket: "The candy Marga gave me tasted strange." A few days later he was dead. Police called on Marga, but soon dropped the case...
...cared for by the Irish Red Cross, under a plan called "Operation Shamrock." During the trip their escorting Red Cross nurse left the children momentarily in the care of Mrs. Penelope Aitken, daughter of Sir John Maffey, British representative to Eire, and wife of William Aitken, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook. One little German girl, aged about 12, stared at beauteous, blonde Mrs. Aitken a long time, then fingered her coat and said: "That is a lovely coat; where did you get it?" Replied Mrs. Aitken: "In England." The little girl asked: "Are you English, then?" Mrs. Aitken replied...
...also the grandson of Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, grandnephew of Critic Matthew Arnold, nephew of Novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward, son of Biographer Leonard Huxley...
...Another surge forward" for Czechoslovakia was predicted last night by Vaclav E. Benes '50, nephew of Dr. Edouard Benes, Czech President...
...biggest flop was the Kansas City machine. Scrapped for junk after Uncle Tom Pendergast went to jail in 1941, the steamroller had been repaired by Nephew Jim. It looked good for a while last summer, but last week, the voters overturned it. It not only failed to elect Harry Truman's Enos Axtell, it lost its two best patronage jobs, including the presiding judgeship of the County Court (in which Harry Truman had begun his rise...