Word: nephew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...again at war's end, Lenin appeared to have undergone a change for the better, causing Observer B. Krinitsky to exclaim: "Lenin looks much the same as many of us remember him." The reason for this startling rejuvenation, was suggested last week by Budu Svanidze, 57-year-old nephew of Stalin's first wife Katerina. Svanidze, who recently bolted a Soviet diplomatic job to marry a Hungarian girl, has written a book about life with Stalin, which France's Opera Mundi is serializing...
...Among Morris' direct descendants is great-grandson Gouverneur Morris, novelist and short-story writer. Newbold Morris, recently fired as Harry Truman's special corruption hunter, is a great-great-great-nephew, as is his brother, George L. K. Morris, "concretionist" painter and a onetime editor and angel of the Partisan Review...
...should establish an academy of diplomacy to take its place alongside West Point and Annapolis," Stassen said, decrying the low caliber of our diplomatic corps. Because of the lack of adequately trained foreign service personnel "some nephew of a senator, who hardly knows how to get out of the rain, often gets a vacant position...
...Louis' nephew, Francois "Le Grand," was represented by one of his most talked about but least performed compositions. It is a miniature musical drama, depicting the deification of Couperin's idol, Jean Baptiste Lully. This is program music at its most imaginative. Each of the twelve sections has an elaborate title (such as Lully in the Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin...
...story of The Grass Harp revolves around an emotional conflict between two middle aged spinsters, the Misses Dolly and Varena Talbo, who live in a small town with her nephew. Dolly discovers that her domineering sister wants to exploit a secret Dropsy cure that she had discovered, and she promptly bundles off her nephew and the cook to a tree house in a nearby forest...