Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sober Cagney, having risen to city editor, is drafted by Publishing Tycoon Raymond Massey to reform his drunken nephew (Gig Young), now the husband of Cagney's old girl friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...
...Club's first golden age came soon after it was founded in 1908 at the urging of football coach Percy D. Haughton '99. The building was erected with funds provided by Allston Burr '89 in memory of his nephew Francis H. Burr '09, the Club's first president. From its founding until the time the House plan was put into operation in 1931 the Club served as an effective meeting place for the College's athletes. Upperclassmen lived in the Yard or along Mount Auburn Street, and the Club was comparatively nearby...
...honeymoon distressed by the reports. Recently when 400 acres of land near Alexandria were sold to the poor at bargain prices, the lists proved that among the "poor" new owners were relatives of Nahas Pasha's wife-her sister, her twelve-year-old niece, ten-year-old nephew, her brother & his wife. At Zitoon, near the Cairo airport, there were 10,000 applicants for another stretch of land. So a lottery was held by the government. The lucky winners included three of Nahas Pasha's cousins, the telephone operator at his residence, four of his secretaries...
...executioners and appointed a single Monsieur de Paris to perform the function. In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton headsmen. Deibler was succeeded by his son Anatole, who ruled the guillotine with honor until 1939. He was succeeded by his nephew, Jules Henri Desfourneaux...
Among its early American collections the Manuscript Division holds the records of Thomas Hancock who made all the family money and his nephew John who spent it all. They also include the ledgers of the first industry in the United States, a small iron works in Saugus, Mass. However, the collection is strongest on nineteenth century New England textile and shipping industries...