Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleges in turn profoundly influence the schools, by setting standards, defining the curriculum, and training teachers. Less attention has been paid to the far-reaching effects of primary and intermediate education. President Angell refers to the fact that the American boy, as compared with his British and Continental cousin, somewhere loses about two years. The graduate of a French lycee at the age of sixteen years, for example, is in scholastic attainment about two years ahead of American youth of the same age. Indirectly this is in part the effect of conditions that no one would wish to see duplicated...
...unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter who, after losing a gallant military lover, serves her family in season and out; hands over a later suitor-her last chance-to her lovelorn cousin; fusses over the little nephews and great-nephews as they grow up into soldiers, painters and poets out of the mercantile tradition of the family. Aricie grows "inhuman through excess of altruism," a woman who kills herself with kindness to others...
...American boy lags a year or two behind his British and Continental cousin in his educational progress because of too little acquaintance with really hard work, too long and possibly too many vacations devoid of study, poorly organized programs of study...
...ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited remark was allegedly made to Lady Louise of Mountbatten (formerly Princess of Battenburg) at the time when she was being pressed to marry him by his second cousin George...
Sirs: On p. 12 of your issue of Nov. 9 you quoted certain rather vacuous remarks attributed to the young Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the great "Iron Chancellor," now in this country as the guest of his cousin, Baron Leopold Piessen of the German Embassy at Washington. In your article you imply that Prince Bismarck is "commonplace," "Babbitt-tailored," a "fop," a "milksop." Will you not give publicity to the following estimate of Prince Bismarck recently penned by a gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least...