Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the bride is German pleased truculent Greek Dictator General John Metaxas, an outspoken admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, whose brashness makes the Greek Royal Family, all handsome and high-strung as greyhounds, shudder. From England the bridegroom's first cousin Princess Marina, beauteous Duchess of Kent, brought a sprig from the favorite myrtle tree of Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of the bride. From Doom portly Prince Oscar, son of Wilhelm II, brought a sprig of orange blossom from the orangerie of the one-time Kaiser, grandfather of Princess Frederika who wore both sprigs...
...Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...
...businessman, withal a radical hero. Friedrich Engels, after reading Morgan's studies of primitive man, corrected The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels drew on Morgan's findings on primitive family relationships in writing The Origin of the Family. Meanwhile, Morgan settled in Rochester, N. Y., married a cousin, became a director in railway & mining companies and piled up $100,000 before he died in 1881. He was elected State senator in 1867, but his legislative career was notable only for his attempt to block an investigation of the gigantic Erie Railroad swindle...
...Picasso, Rouault, Derain, Utrillo and by his friends Max Weber and Maurice Sterne. By 1933 his collection was big enough to rate an exhibition at the Chicago Arts Club. Gershwin himself started painting in 1929 and came along fast with a few tips and encouragement from his artist cousin, Henry A. Botkin. He liked to paint so much that in the year or two before his death he actually preferred it to composition at the piano, even thought of giving up his music...
...episode in which a Duke Varlott plots to gain the mythical throne of Medioka from his under-age nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika by the Government for two days. Unfortunately for Reporter Harrison, his story implied permanent suppression...