Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: With Lawrence of Arabia again in the news you might be interested in two stories concerning him. . . . I had them from an English cousin, not given to gossip. His knowledge was first hand...
Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
...Archduke's lawyers argued that his personal family was never "regnant." It was "royal," since he was a cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph, but not "regnant" positively not "regnant." Therefore his estates should never have been confiscated, must be promptly returned...
...with confidence to their very rich relatives, the Kochs and Dreyfuses of Germany and France. They are related to that Robert Koch (1843-1910) who discovered tuberculin and, after Louis Pasteur (1822-95), founded modern medicine. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-), of France's famed "Dreyfus case," is Dr. Einstein's cousin...
...almost feudally du Pont state of Delaware and brother Pierre is reputed to have wanted to retire from active business before the du Fonts ever bought into G. M. C. Moreover, it is a du Pont tradition for elders to make way for juniors. T. Coleman (elder cousin), Pierre, Irenee and Lammot were successive presidents of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...