Word: grandnephews
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...stated, the grandson of the Empress Dowager's early lover, he is also her grandnephew...
...Sultan of Borneo by violence, trickery and threats. Even today the discreet British Statesman's Year Book is obliged to list opium, gambling and arrack (strong spirits) as leading sources of revenue of the House of Brooke in Sarawak. The present Rajah, hard, suave, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (grandnephew of Little Boy Brooke) boasts in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish head hunters" and "understands the management of natives." Last week Rajah Brooke sailed over to the great British Singapore Naval Base just opposite...
...Minister to the court of Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, President Roosevelt appointed his onetime law partner, Grenville Temple Emmet of Manhattan, great-grandnephew of famed, executed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet...
Christian Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley, a great-great-grandnephew of the Duke of Wellington, who last June married a hat-checker in a Reno. Nev. night club, announced that he had bought a ranch in Washoe Valley, Nev.. planned to renounce his seat in the House of Lords, become a U. S. citizen. Explained he: "My wife and the life of the West mean more to me than titles. We shall be immensely happy on our little ranch. We shall have sufficient pasture for my horses, raise a little hay, and settle down to being happy...
...layman to laymen, amateurishly twanging the Hearst harp for larger U. S. air defenses. ¶Swallowed up in last week's hurricane was the sloop Postscript manned by three young Manhattan neighbors of President Roosevelt. Out of Manasquan, N. J. for Nantucket had sailed Pierre Irving, 21, great-grandnephew of Washington Irving, and the Niles Brothers, John, 23. and Charles, 16. sons of Dr. Walter Niles who lives around the corner from the President on East 64th Street. The seagoing President ordered the Coast Guard specially mobilized to search for these neighbors. ¶Secretary of the Treasury Woodin...