Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wise and venerable representatives of Islam who debated these momentous issues were given pause by the following considerations: 1) In 1922 the Turkish Parliament abolished the Sultanate, deposed the Sultan-Calif Mohammed VI and conferred the Califate upon his cousin, Prince Abdul Mejid. Subsequently (1924) it abolished the Califate and banished from Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed...
...Mormons in the Senate-Senator King of Utah. He talks more than any other Senator. He has something learned to say on almost every subject, but he does not carry many votes with him. That good looking, young-looking fellow just to your left-he is David Reed, a cousin of the other Reed but a Republican. He is rising fast, a staunch supporter of the Administration...
From his quiet home at Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, Mr. Rudyard Kipling (cousin of Premier Stanley Baldwin, their mothers having been two of the four famed Macdonald sisters) contributed some verses to the British Gazette, the Government's emergency anti-strike newspaper...
...Swedish prince will not cause the palpitations among Yale's fair young commencement-time visitors that his cousin, Edward of Wales, might occasion were he to be present. H. R. H. Gustaf Adolf is tall, handsome, but he has a son of 20, a second wife (the former Lady Louise Mountbatten...
...What cousin of Edward of Wales once rescued a drowning U. S. jack...