Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop wrote about the Senator, calling him familiarly "Cabot." The Banker Bishop (socalled because of his inherited wealth, his financial successes on behalf of his Church), cousin of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, wrote sympathetically-too sympathetically to suit many people. For, praising Mr. Lodge, he offered something less than half-praise to Woodrow Wilson...
...afternoon, capped and gowned, he opened the University of Witwatersrand, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1922 by his cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the then Governor General. Students yelled their lungs raw and the Vice Chancellor, Sir Robert Kotze, invested him with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
...Cavendish Hotel, London, for her "story." Now it is told, in her own saucy words, to a honey-tongued minion of The Pictorial Review. From a pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated sub rosa. By sheer elbow-grease, gaiety and culinary cunning, she became, she says, and remains, the outstanding cook of her time...
...fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze-news of a desirable position for the host in England. A jog is indicated in everyone's life. Clouds follow the breeze, each basker having a selfish reaction to this jog. Thunderheads follow clouds, each basker lying to himself about his selfish reaction...
...Teaser. The arrival of the country cousin (this one from Menominee, Mich.) and her methods of winning the hard hearts of her city relatives are recognized stock for cinema soup. This portion is seasoned sensibly with novelty and makes a fair dish of entertainment. The extraordinarily blonde Laura La Plante occupies herself genially enough in the title part...