Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will go fast and far on the inherent appeal of its chief character and the tremendous vivacity and skill of the gal who plays her. Everybody enjoys a lovable lunatic, and Rosalind Russell is a delight as the kindhearted madwoman of Beekman Place, bringing up her small nephew in a world of sidecars for breakfast, living herself in sumptuous dishabille, now marrying, now dispensing with marriage, now rescuing her nephew from a stuffy brand...
...whole sect. Friends stopped talking to him. Neighbors came to visit his wife when he was in the fields, left as soon as he returned. Irritated by his lonely existence, Adin finally lit on a group of neighbors and told them to stay away altogether. About this time a nephew decided Adin was showing signs of insanity. He had a talk with Psychologist Jacob Goering at Brook Lane, a Mennonite hospital for mental care. On the basis of the nephew's description, bolstered by talks with Adin's wife, Goering decided that Adin was dangerously unbalanced...
Perhaps the only weak link in almost nine centuries of tradition was 1789 when the Puseys of Pusey Manor found themselves without a male heir. Ever resourceful, they import the a nephew from France who, like a good Frenchman, adopted the family name and produced a long line of male Puseys, some of whom still live in England, some in France, and some--however remotely related--in Cambridge...
...case found its way to the St. Louis Exposition, and there among the finest names in whisky, unheralded Jack Daniel's won first prize. After that, Daniel's went right on winning awards, but the distillery did not try to capitalize on its growing fame. With nephew Lem Motlow running the business (uncle Jack had crippled himself in 1905 angrily trying to kick open his balky office safe), it still held to the old methods, turned out fewer than 800 gals, a day, not much more than an enterprising moonshiner. After Tennessee went dry in 1909, the distillery...
...reporting and its circulation on a succession of widely publicized hassles with medical authorities. It offered the first report (1847) of the use of anesthetics, the first discussion (1867) of Joseph Lister's treatment of wounds with antiseptics. It boldly reported on a bungled lithotomy by Bransby Cooper, nephew of famed Surgeon Sir Astley Cooper. Young Cooper had made an incision in the wrong place, tried to force an opening into the bladder with forceps, finally turned to his unanesthetized patient a few minutes before he died and complained petulantly that he could not imagine how he had failed...