Word: grandnephew
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...paraphrase the grammar school boff, what are they going to eat in the House of Lords? They won't be able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu...
...they can ship it to Rome. From their isolated offices, they ring up the highest long-distance telephone bills in Italy. Third-generation Family Head Paolo Agnesi, 93, who wears handlebar mustaches and goatee, for 76 years has arrived at the plant with his laborers at 6 a.m. His grandnephew, Paolo, 24, recently returned home from New York's Syracuse University, where he studied computer applications to spaghetti-making...
...Around Us brought Rachel Carson fame and fortune but not much happiness. A marine biologist by training, she never married ("because I didn't have time"), lived with her ailing mother and an orphaned grandnephew whom she adopted. After resigning from her Washington job, she wrote another successful book, The Edge of the Sea, and though painfully shy lectured widely. Then, about six years ago, her old friends Stuart and Olga Huckins complained that anti-mosquito spraying had damaged birds in the two-acre nature sanctuary that they maintain near Duxbury, Mass. Thus was born Silent Spring...
Died. George Eli Whitney, 101, Yankee tinkerer, inventor (in 1896) of the two-cylinder auto steam engine that powered the first Locomobile, a grandnephew of the inventor of the cotton gin, who dreamed up more than 150 gizmos, including a garage-door closer and a portable asphalt brick machine; in Manchester...
Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...