Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. The Right Rev. George Coolidge Huntington, 52, cousin to President Coolidge and fourth Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Nevada; in Reno, from pneumonia...
George H. Babbitt, butter-and-egg man of Tiffin, Ohio, and cousin to the prominent realtor about whom Mr. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, comes to Manhattan for the Fodder Products Convention. With him comes Mrs. Babbitt and all the little Babbitts...
...case the heroine. She is a heroine, too, of the old school, a back-to-nature heroine, against a background of curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly while the incomparable Pam is battling with disease. The story...
...Cheat-the-Boys" is the endearing nickname of Gilyan, who tosses the hearts of the youth of Devonshire about in a manner more piquant than kindly. Gilyan meant well by Warner, but the strings of their amours only became the more evolved, despite the timely arrival of Harold Lidstone, cousin from the city. Sunshine, ample-blossoms, cider, a deft and graceful style, carry the docile reader through unhurried pages of reflective charm...
Divorced. Charles Holland Duell, son of the late Judge Charles H. Duell of the U. S. Court of Appeals, and cousin of Elihu Root, by Mrs. Lillian Tucker Duell, onetime actress. She charged that he had refused to renew marital relations. It was rumored that he would marry Miss Lillian Gish, cinema actress...