Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. In the midst of 50,000 acres of Scotch moorland stood Dunross, sufficient unto itself, indifferent to neighboring lairds of small intelligence and long lineage. Indifferent because the clannish Daventrys were a community in themselves. There were five children, besides the resident cousin, who at the age of fifteen was in love with Octavia, youngest daughter of the house. A professor, kindly young recluse, woos her with classical quotations, understands her adolescent enthusiasms, guides her voracious reading. Worldly Compton, 34, gloating upon her 17 years of mobile beauty, coaches her proficient horsemanship, persuades her parents to send...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Booker Dawes, wife of President William Ruggles Dawes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, cousin of U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes; in Chicago...
...Princess Xenia of Russia, second cousin once removed of the late Tsar Nicholas II, is better known in Manhattan as rich Mrs. William B. Leeds. Three months ago she brought to the U. S. as her guest a famed & mysterious young woman, "Mme. Tchaikovsky" (TIME, Feb. 20), who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas the Last...
...walk at all. Her two children were born dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark bank ever since leaving the radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot...
...Cousin of President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington-Rand, office equipment...