Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hermione is shocked. Hermione wants to marry her cousin Orestes. Helen does not like the straight-laced young fellow and would prefer her to marry Pyrrhus, the daredevil son of Achilles. Then there is the rumor that Eteoneus, the gatekeeper, brings to Menelaus: "Your sister-in-law Clytemnestra-your double sister-in-law, I might say; your wife's sister and your brother's wife-has been living with Aegisthus ever since Agamemnon went to Troy...
Died. Almon W. Coolidge, cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, a carpenter; at Rochester, N. Y., where with the aid of his wife he had been compiling a genealogy of the Coolidge family...
...confused with Lytton Strachey, his 45-year-old cousin, likewise a famed essayist, author of Queen Victoria, Eminent Victorians...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...interest you to learn that it is said on very good authority that Crown Prince Olaf of Norway is soon to marry Princess Astrid of Sweden, his first cousin. This will be a good marriage in a political sense as, ever since Norway separated from Sweden in 1905, the Swedes have had a grudge against the Norwegians, and this marriage, which will put a Swedish princess on the throne of Norway, will soothe the Swedes' ruffled pride and heal the breach between the two countries. Prince Olaf is the only child of the King and Queen of Norway...