Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady is Lanice Bardeen; her home, a New England college town; her "Work," painting and writing under the genteel urban sponsorship of her Cousin Pauline, a sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...
This laudable end is in some measure achieved during Lanice's literary connection with the publishing house of Redcliffe & Fox. But Cousin Pauline's instrumentality ends where it began. The major factors and the quotient-to touch lightly upon fragile matters-are these...
...Woman, Boat. Above six feet in height, full of face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
...Governor William Wallace Stickney announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Senator against Porter H. Dale, the incumbent. The interest in Stickney's candidacy rests on a number of facts: 1) Senator Dale has not been a very close supporter of the President. 2) Governor Stickney is a cousin of the President and was chosen by him to administer his father's estate. 3) Mr. Stickney is also a law partner of Attorney General Sargent...
...Hornaday has studied and collected wild life in virtually every retreat and game paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn...