Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's generous Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta was sued by a former niece-in-law, Mrs. Idel Tyson (now divorced from Perle's nephew). The charge: Perle had helped haul off $8,700 worth of household goods from Idel's Washington apartment while Idel was off in Europe...
Ella grows up to a joyless marriage to a decent local grocer. She tends store, she raises her nephews, she keeps house and plays bridge when she has to. But her neighbors bore her, the birth of a daughter fails to enrich her unsmiling nature, and neither good times nor bad, drought nor plenty seem to offer any real excuse for living. Author Siebel kills off her characters with adding-machine indifference. Mother goes. Then the favorite nephew dies in World War II. Finally, Ella herself methodically swallows a bottle of sleeping pills, rinses her water glass, and lies down...
That night Li Po angrily snapped out the lamp as Mr. Huang read his newspaper. "There is a light in the other room," he informed his host briskly. "You are wasting electricity, the people's money and the people's sweat and labor." Hoping to befriend his nephew, Mr. Huang offered him candy. Li Po shot out his hand eagerly, withdrew it when he saw the English lettering on the wrappers. "I do not eat goods of the enemy," he said, and turned his head away...
Happy Ending. In Vancouver, B.C., arrested for attempted murder of his nephew, Gordon Everts told the cops: "I held him while my wife hit him with an ax. This is the first time she acted like a woman-not a mouse-when I asked her to do something...
Sigmund's constant companion was his nephew John, and (says Jones with unanalytical British understatement) "there are indications that their mutual play was not always entirely innocent." Their lack of innocence extended to play with John's sister Pauline, and Freud (as he told later) had fantasies of her being raped by both John and himself. Outstanding in his early relationships was his attitude toward a father old enough to be his grandfather. By putting him on a pedestal of eld and aloofness, and absolving him of "blame" for his mother's pregnancies, little Sigmund...