Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Princess Nadejda, 25, sister of King Boris of Bulgaria, to her third cousin, Duke Albert Eugene of Wurttemberg, 28, second son of Duke Albrecht. They are great grandchildren of Louis Philippe of France, who-during the revolution of 1848-was smuggled to England as "Mr. Smith...
...colleges, immediately became the most important minor sport. It shook off, to a great extent, the connotation of pink teas and cookies; it overcame the objection to the expense and location of courts, and it gained major sport letters for its champions. This is the road which its winter cousin has before it, and on which it has made a good start...
Died. Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler, 70, cousin of the late President Roosevelt, at Nyack, N. Y., of cardiac rheumatism. Before Prohibition he and his cousin, Samuel Roosevelt, were sole agents in the U. S. for Haig & Haig, Scotch whisky...
Engaged. Prince Erik, 31, third son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark, first cousin of King George of England and King Christian of Denmark, to Miss Lois Frances Booth, granddaughter of J. R. Booth, Canadian lumber king. Before announcing his engagement, the Prince renounced all rights to the Danish throne, for which he is eighth in direct male line, those preceding him being King Christian's two sons, Frédéric and Kund, his two brothers, Harald and Gustave, Harald's son (born in 1919), Prince Erik's father, Valdemar, his brother, Axel...
...plot is not especially thrilling. Miss Binney picks a discarded letter to her cousin who stars in the Follies out of the fireplace and answers it. Eventually, an exciting correspondence develops between her and a young engineer in South America who is under the delusion that he is writing to the Follies lady. When he invents a new kind of switch and comes to New York to confer with the New York Central Railroad, the complications begin, which carry every one back to Peru for the last act. This last act, by the way, is just a bit fanciful...