Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Police Force in the U. S." C. Putnam is a remarkable man. He has a habit of beating T. R. Ill at golf; he spends home-like evenings with his family devoted part to study periods and part to "an hour of social intercourse" before retiring; he has a cousin, Fred C. Putnam (the gentleman whose name Mr. Countryman prefers as nom de plume) who is his double; and he has a charming foster daughter, Frances...
Prince Felix Yusupov, traveling as Count Sumarokov-Elston, accompanied by his wife, Princess Irene, second cousin of the Tsar and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, and Baroness Wrangel, wife of the famed General whose White Army failed to overthrow the Bolshevik régime in Russia, arrived in the U. S. on board the S. S. Berengaria...
...Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from it. To them, realism consists of the painting of life as something which has its morbid moments; but these moments they find...
...George was deposed. Twelve years later he died and was succeeded by his son, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who, however, still claimed and was generally known by the British title of Duke of Cumberland. This man, a great-grandson of George III of Britain, second cousin once removed of King George V and second cousin of Queen Mary, is the gentleman who was proud to hold a British title but " too proud " to fight for it. Thus by depriving him of his title did the head of the House of Windsor (formerly the House of Saxe...
...King George of Greece married Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, Feb. 27, 1921 ; Princess Helene, his sister, married Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, March 10, 1921. Princess Olga, first cousin of the King, married Prince Paul of Serbia...