Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...delights of the issue, the latest of F. Hopkinson Smith's ever-fascinating sketches is not to be counted last. It is very happily called "A Knight of the Legion of Honor" and is a thoroughly good story. Thomas Nelson Page also has a good short story entitled "My Cousin Fanny." and Mr. Sterner's illustration to it is arranged in a very unique...
...number consists of "The Mayor of Lyme Regis," by S. P. Duffield, and "Mile. Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
...Pellow was the eldest son of Henry E. Pellow, who is a cousin of Viscount Exmouth and brother-in-law, as well as cousin, of the present Viscount Sidmouth. His mother was a sister of John Jay. He was born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned...
...servant to steal from a neighbor, and when questioned by her husband replies it is not for men to concern themselves about the cooking. Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain of the warring guard at Constantinople...