Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grand Duke Nicholas, cousin of Tsar Nicholas II (who with his family was reported to have been murdered by the Bolsheviki at Ekaterinburg), and one time Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Russian Army, was reported to be preparing for a "peaceful conquest" of Soviet Russia...
...plan to get rid of Charlemagne Putnam by having him appointed International Superintendent of the International Police. C. Putnam accepts, but by an intricate series of exchanges of identity with his cousin, he succeeds in being wherever he is not believed...
...home, and we can deal with them." More remarkable than his policy was the improved tone of his oratory. No longer did he stress his inability as a phrasemaker, but burst into floods of forceful phrases which caused surprise to some and to others a suspicion that his cousin, Rudyard Kipling, had had a hand in framing his speeches...
Ganna Walska McCormick: "In Chicago, Miss Elizabeth McCormick, second cousin of my husband, Harold F. McCormick, gave a dinner for the McCormick family. The newspapers reported that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick and I 'confronted each other in seats of honor.' Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick was escorted by Edward Krenn, Viennese architect. They later went to the Batik Ball...
...with those of Europe, and that the absence of a radical party is only one more indication of general prosperity and content throughout the country as well as in the colleges. One reason that the American student shows less of the spirit of question and revolt than his European cousin is that he sees less to question and attack...