Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porter Hinman Dale, former Congressman from the Second Vermont District, took the Republican nomination by securing 26,463 votes out of 49,436 cast for three candidates in the primary. The Democrats nominated Park H. Pollard, a cousin of President Coolidge, who was unopposed. The third name on the ballot will be that of Marshall Hapgood, who classes himself as an " Independent Progressive" and asserts in Who's Who that he is known as " the Rugged Reformer." His other claims to distinction include the invention of an out-of-door fireplace and activity in movements to conserve forests...
...frightened at the right places. Nevertheless, Miriam Doyle is pleasing as the courageous and attractive young heiress; and Walter Regan, who has a fairly difficult part as the wavering, somewhat ridiculous schoolboy lover of Miss West, and the official humorist, is one of the outstanding players. As Cousin Sue, who feels "in duty bound" to tell everything she knows in a rather disagreeable fashion, Florence Huntington is so convincing that one hesitates to praise her; her part seems too natural to be acting. The other characters are taken well enough; one feels no particular lack nor any unusual talent...
...chances of such a coup are on the face of it good. The Allies, confronted with a fait accompli, would hesitate to take any costly action against Germany; moreover, Prince Rupprecht is known to be a thoroughly trustworthy and practical man and as such is respected; he is also cousin of the Queen of the Belgians. The real barriers to the Wittelsbach aspirations lie in the fact that North Germany is Protestant and Bavaria Catholic; and that a Dictator has been appointed for the whole Reich, who will assuredly oppose strenuously any activity on the part of Rupprecht of Bavaria...
...Cousin Egbert was possessed of a considerable fortune but no table manners. Therefore he was deported to Paris by his socially hopeful relatives and bidden to acquire culture. In the process he takes unto himself a valet and returns with the valet to Red Gap. The premier performance of the piece is given by Ernest Torrence as uncouth Cousin Egbert. Second in command is Lois Wilson...
...Taffari is not the Emperor of Abyssinia, but the heir to the throne. The nominal ruler of the land is Empress Waizern Zauditu (Ras Taffari is her second cousin). She was proclaimed the Empress of Abyssinia in September, 1916, after her nephew, Lij Yasu, was deposed by public proclamation. The Empress was crowned at Addis Abbaba, capital of Abyssinia, Feb. 11, 1917. The Empress keeps herself very much in the background and the affairs of the State are thus largely in the hands of Ras Taffari...