Word: clan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Zara du Pont, 77, peppery maverick of the munitions-making clan, longtime champion of child welfare, women's suffrage, and the labor movement; in Boston...
...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
Cassini: "The present head of the American Astor clan is Vincent, childless, twice-married, phlegmatic and serious-minded. He founded model farms and builds model tenements for the poor, and runs de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...
Last week in Ontario's Supreme Court, a canny Scot Justice named Keiller MacKay gave a decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...
Died. Joseph Cardinal MacRory, 84, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years...