Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nephew of William James...
...nephew of the famous author, William James, the leader of "Yankee Freemen" stated in a recent interview that Hitler has no designs on us and that the President is responsible for America's entry into...
...beautiful young actresses that have come to be a welcome characteristic of the summer stage. Of the latter category, Richard Barthelmess' daughter Mary is unquestionably the most beautiful and the most pleasant. A great deal of credit also goes to pinch-hitter Jolyon Baker for his playing of the nephew-in-everybody'shair, which he learned in the afternoon before the opening. Except for an occasional drag where clever dialogue fails to make up for lack of action, and the overplaying of a couple of necessarily riotous scenes, "George Washington Slept Here" is a happy beginning for the coming season...
...right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
When his eighth-grade nephew came home and announced that his class had produced three plays in one day, a young Boston adman and magazine publisher named A. S. Burack looked into the matter, found that 1) few good plays were written for children, 2) few schools could pay commercial royalties (averaging $5 a performance) for professional plays, 3) consequently most schools had to produce old chestnuts or the amateurish writings of pedagogues...