Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mansions of peers (TIME, Nov. 22). Since the late Lord Michelham's art treasures (Gainsboroughs, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences) are likewise to be sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King Emperor. Soon Commoner Cohn will wreck his new-bought house-once the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury-will erect on its patrician site an apartment hotel...
...because the Allies might not stomach the restoration of the very prince whose father they overthrew. From this and other technical causes† many Hungarians have turned to the shrewd youthful Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 29, as their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore has no "rights of succession," but he and his clever mother, the Archduchess Isabella, have adroitly built up the "Free Electoral Party" of Hungary to a feverish pitch of resolution in his support...
...airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...
...purpose: born in 1809 (the same day as Abraham Lincoln), son of a prosperous doctor, he attended Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, gave up tentative plans for medicine and the clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), died in 1882 having sorely suffered...
...South Dakota it was a bad day for the name of Gunderson. Governor Carl Gunderson, Republican, was defeated by William J. Bulow, able country lawyer, who is to be the first Democratic Governor in the history of South Dakota. Another Gunderson, C. J., Democrat, cousin of Republican Carl, was overwhelmed in the Senatorship battle by Senator Peter Norbeck, Republican...