Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take away those pillows; I shall need them no more," said Dodgson on his deathbed. "Wonderland at last!" said the nephew who buried...
...admitted that they did not know much about the plan. But they gave international cooperation a thumping (18-to-1) yea. Their sons were fighting all over the world, and they were for anything that gave hope of keeping it from happening again. As one townsman, who has a nephew in China, grandsons in North Africa and New Guinea, put it: "We're not so narrow any more. We've changed our minds about a lot of things since the war started...
...Gerald David Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 20, nephew of Britain's George VI, was praised by his regimental sergeant major as a democratic, model soldier. There was only one complaint against Private Lascelles: his superiors could not persuade him to make the usual $4-a-week allotment to his mother, the Princess Royal...
Vandenberg (a nephew of Michigan's U.S. Senator) gets along with his crewmen and enlistees by talking air-slanguage with the slangiest of them,* playing volleyball and ping-pong with them, and usually beating them. A dashing figure in impeccable uniform, cap set at a rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...
Irving traveled through the West with two Europeans. Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès, 19, had been sent away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks...