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Word: nephew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does a neat job, but unfortunately her snooping, thieving nephew guesses what aunty has done and decides to blackmail her. The clash of wits and wills between the two keeps the play tense with excitement till near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Young comes of a good newspaper family. Cousin and private secretary to Edward Wyllis Scripps, he was with Scripps on his yacht Ohio, off the coast of Liberia, when the late, great founder of United Press and the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance died in 1926. He is also a nephew of Paul Patterson, president of the Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Japanese Justice | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...with the farm." The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, tall and handsome brother of Texas George, founded the first Protestant mission in Brazil, for 31 years was a missionary bishop in that country. His stay there resulted in Brazilian nicknames for his son and his nephew. "Big Tui," the son, was Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II, today the stalwart, handsome dean of the Episcopal Cathedral in Garden City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity to Trinity | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Little Tui," the nephew, was Arthur Lee Kinsolving-son of a third clerical brother, the Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving, longtime rector of St. Paul's in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity to Trinity | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Walking home, you mention music, and she begins to babble about Tschaikowsky. She plays it so much that her four year old nephew has learned to pronounce the name. She lives at the Newtowne housing project. Standing in the clean, wide court the wind catches her hair and makes it dance. And then you ask her (without ever thinking) about Monday night? Alice nods; Saturday night is over: Monday night will soon be here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

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