Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pasquignon Loubet, cousin of Emile Loubet, a former President of France, was caught in the act of substituting a sackful of prepared ballots for some being despatched for counting. It was said to be the only attempt to stuff ballot boxes in the election (TIME...
Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife Princess Irene, second cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, steamed from Manhattan on the good ship Aquitania...
...pitiful exhibition of mid-Victorianism. And just a pitiful would be the counter suggestion that the fault of the grammar schools lies in political school boards and underpaid teachers; or that a little logic and a little disagreeable work is very "good for the soul." No, small Cousin Biliee must henceforth be allowed to vent his creative impulse on the fly leaf of a first edition "Ulysses", and improve the hitherto uncolored wood-cuts in a calf-skin Hegarth. His ideas of constructive living will doubtless entail late hours and a participation in the family revels...
Fred Stone, famed comedian: "I wrote a letter to my cousin Melville E. Stone, general counsellor of the Associated Press. Said I: 'For several weeks the thought uppermost in my mind has been the fortunate circumstance that we had in the Vice Presidency at the time of the death of President Harding a man of Presidential caliber. . . . Since I last saw you the Dawes report has been made public. ... It seems to me that the plan which General Dawes has worked out will bring stability and peace to Europe and an era of sound prosperity to this country...
...rather a plaster saint of a woman; her occasional distress arouses little sympathy, and her mishaps, due largely to a complete lack of that suspicious intelligence which is recognized by everyone from the cartoonists up as truly characteristic of woman, seem too obviously avoidable to deserve compassion. Her cousin is much more human, though she is apparently designed as a foil to set off more sharply the sterling qualities of the other emotions than maidenly modesty, and just enough selfishness to make her recognizable. Perhaps there are perfect people, perhaps it is necessary to have one of them in every...