Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first cousin, Premier Stanley Baldwin,* thought it worth while to rehearse softie of the oldtime Kipling duty-booming in the Government's emergency newssheet (TIME...
Manhattan is full of Italian waiters, German butchers, Irish millionaires and Russian artists. One of the Russians is Arshele Gorky, 23, who last week became an active member of the faculty of the Grand Central Art School. His cousin, Maxim, is now in Venice, treating a cardiac ailment and working on another book of those stories which, kindled from Anton Pavlovich Tchekov's great bonfire, have made his name burn like a sombre torch' across the world. Arshele Gorky admits the relationship. He himself paints still life. In his first newspaper interview he talked good sense...
...Dutch name for this monster lizard is boeaja darat (land crocodile). Science calls him varanus komodensis, identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...
...power (TIME, July 6, 1925, et seq.)-that elections will shortly be held. At present Greece has no Parliament, and but slim chances that the new electoral promises will be kept better than the old ones which were not kept at all. At London, King George II, a first cousin once removed of George V of Britain, declared: "We have no personal desire for the throne of Greece, but if it is for the good of our country, then we are willing to return at any time. We do not know the circumstances of the revolution. We do not know...
...meeting a success"; (2) "We will not accept supervision of any outside, body, or be subject to inspection or control by foreign agencies." Mr. Kellogg returned to the Presidents' Camp, conferred again. Then with Mrs. Kellogg, they drove to Long Lake,* where Mr. Kellogg recalled boyhood pranks, where cousin Judge Henry Kellogg enertained them. Next day Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg motored to Washington, D. C. ¶ The Democrats and such insurgent Republicans as Senator Borah continue to bait the President and his Administration with charges of undue leniency in the enforcement of the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws...