Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nephew and heir of a fabulously wealthy speculator, Paul was handsome, broad-shouldered, faithful, devoted to Anne. At ler first girlhood dances he had been a protector among the strange, stony-faced little boys in their first dinner jackets. Anne intended to marry Paul, but would not set a date, and when he left for Chicago on business-warning her not to have a last fling in his absence-she was half relieved...
...whom Dancer Losch married in 1930 (he divorced her in 1934); 2) the Earl of Carnarvon, son of one of the discoverers of Tutankhamen's Tomb, now a British Army Major. She began painting five years ago after being encouraged by Prime Minister Churchill's portrait-painting nephew John. Cried the Countess last week: "I am only going to paint forever. From...
Five days later La Prensa's Director Alberto Gainza Paz, handsome nephew of Don Ezequiel and Doňa Zelmira, met the Government's price for lifting the suspension: it printed the Farrell regime's defense of its economies (one item: rats had been exterminated, thus saving the cost of feeding them to prevent their nibbling at hospital records...
...furniture began to scuttle about. A Baptist minister, called in by Mrs. Cook to exorcise the spirits, could hardly make himself heard above the din of mysterious rappings. "So you've brought the devil to my house, have you?" screamed Mrs. Cook, hurling a chair at her nephew. When he was 18 she kicked him out of the house, threw his Sunday suit after...
...innocent maiden aunts (Jean Aikin and Ruth McDevitt) with the corpses in the basement are the most fascinating innovation in the American literature of the past few years. Slaughterers deluxe of the petite bourgeoisie, the nice old ladies are rivaled only by their nephew (Bela Lugosi) whose 11 murders falls one short of their total...