Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, cousin of Wilhelm Hohenzollern: "The Prussian Minister of Finance lent me 18,000,000 marks on my jewels, to pay my debts in Switzerland. When I came to pay back the loan the mark had dropped. So I got out of $330,000 worth of debts...
Benito Mussolini: "When I act as notary of the Crown at the marriage of Princess Yolanda and Count Calvi in April, the King will confer on me the Order of the Annunziata. That means I shall rank as a cousin of the King...
CHALLENGE - V. Sackville-West- Doran. Whole governments are deftly juggled to form a pseudohistorical background. The drama of Eve, whose passion is masked by her frivolity; of Julian, her cousin, whose cause she betrays for love of him; of Kato, middle-aged and stalwart woman who dominates him, is played against a glowing kaleidoscope of political intrigue in the Greek islands...
...Prominent in national affairs since his graduation from the University he has behind him a remarkable record. In the Great War he served with distinction. He filled an important position at the Washington Conference. At present he occupies the office of assistant-secretary of the Navy--succeeding his cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...England conscience is an ever-present lash, working relentlessly against all natural inclinations and all repose. It it the father and mother of inhibitions, wise and unwise. It is first cousin to all kill-joys and gloom. It is forever stepping up and saying "No!" and tends to associate a sense of guilt with all innocent amusement. It fights against idleness as against one of the cardinal sins. It considers all rest as probably wrong and seeks to drive its victims to incessant mental activity...