Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover men, fearful already lest they get their man too far in front too soon, mostly dissembled the joy that Senator Edge had given them. But dissembling was hard, because: Senator Edge's first cousin is President Walter Clark Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; oil companies have offices near Wall Street; if Wall Street takes to Hoover, so can politicians...
What worried Yozo Fuyubayashi, had happened to the souls of all the flies caught in the flypapers he had sold? Suppose one were the soul of his father, another that of his grandfather, another that of his maternal grand cousin twice removed...
Died. Lewis W. Lincoln, second cousin of the onetime President Abraham Lincoln; in Los Angeles, following an abdominal operation...
...Sultan. "The Sultan is dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
...England, the first thing he did was to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, the granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood. The next was to publish the journal of his voyage. This made him recognised as a brilliant and important naturalist; he and the wife were invited to distinguished dinner parties which annoyed Charles Darwin. He soon stopped going to them and spent the next four years studying species at Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication...