Word: nephew
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Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, hates to be called a press agent. He had raised his voice for democracy before, as a member of the U. S. Committee on Public Information (propaganda) in World War I. Since then he has ably publicized electricity, soap, refrigerators, sea food, written a book on propaganda, become a leading publicist. Three months ago, having concluded that democracy was in grave danger of going under by default, he decided to start a publicity campaign in its behalf. First broadside in his campaign was an article in Current History outlining a program for patriots...
...herself manages the household from her wheel chair (she has dropsy), yearns for the good life in Winchester. Mainly the story is of her more & more elaborate persecution of the young mulatto Nancy, whom she wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns him Nancy as his personal servant. Colbert and his daughter help Nancy escape, unscathed, into Canada. In an old-fashioned epilogue Willa Cather, aged five, sees Nancy's return as a middle-aged woman...
Married. Angier Biddle Duke, 24, sportsman tobacco heir and nephew of U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.; and Mrs. Margaret Screven White Tuck, 34, Tuxedo Park socialite; a few hours after she secured a divorce from Captain Alexander J. M. Tuck; in Reno...
...McBride follows up after she reads their reports. Only written material she uses on the air are a few scribbled notes on a sheet of yellow paper. In her six years on the air, she has received over a million letters. Folksiest broadcast she ever made involved her redheaded nephew on the occasion of his first birthday. The nephew proved taciturn and Miss McBride, to convince her listeners that he was really there, kept murmuring, "Say 'Goo,' baby, say 'Goo.' " After listening to Miss McBride for almost 45 minutes, the baby finally gave...
Embezzled Heaven is the story of an Austrian cook's attempt to win her salvationby"theological craftiness."She would pay for her nephew's clerical education so that, when he became a priest, his grateful prayers would win grace for her sinful soul. Indifferent to her nephew except as a part of her scheme, Teta answered his pleas for money for 30 years. One day she retired, set out to visit him. He was not, as he claimed, the parish priest in her home town in Moravia. After "a labyrinthine meandering through her nephew's long-forgotten...