Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland and Greater Germany (see map), has not visited his tiny nation for five years. He has run his Government by long-distance from Vienna and his Czechoslovakian estates. Last week the aged ruler suddenly abdicated at his hunting lodge near Semmering, Austria, named his 31-year-old third cousin, mustached, dapper Prince Franz Joseph, as his successor...
...world's most endearing elephants. Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were published in France, translated into English. A few months before he died at 37, M. de Brunhoff designed costumes and sets...
When young Franklin Delano Roosevelt married his fifth cousin Eleanor, on St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he was somewhat perturbed to find that her Uncle Theodore, who gave the bride away, got much more attention than the bridegroom. Year in and out, life among the Roosevelts is much the same. Last week, on the 33rd anniversary of his wedding. Franklin Roosevelt had outstripped almost everyone else in the world in the endless race for public attention, but his own family was still very much in the running...
...considerably blacker (see cut) than his country's cocoa, is inclined to blame it on the British. "One day in 1916 I had a vision," he says. "I decided to give up being a prince and become a businessman." He handed over his social duties to a younger cousin, and devoted his time to the flea he had in his ear about the British...
...eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Following her divorce in 1921, Baroness Blixen managed the plantation alone, until collapsed coffee prices...