Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Dowager Duchess Eleanore, impatiently paced the roof at London's Croydon Aerodrome waiting for the arrival of his family from Germany. Grand Duke George, 31, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; his 26-year-old wife, the former Princess Cecile of Greece & Denmark and cousin of England's Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince Ludwig, 6, Prince Alexander, 4, and the 66-year-old Dowager Duchess were all flying to London for the wedding of Prince Ludwig, social attaché in the German Embassy at London, to Miss Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter...
...fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
...Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still has a hankering after architecture. Saks-Fifth Avenue announced last week that it is building a $500,000 branch store in Beverly Hills, Calif., partly designed by Mr. Gimbel...
Even with the entrance upon the scene of an enthusiastic and sympathetic female, purblind to college traditions and feuds, the tension was unrelieved. Crossing Dillon Field, Cousin Arthur espied the red jerseys of Crimson players. "Rather conservative up here, aren't you?" he asked Uncle Henry. The West Virginia lass said: "Why, I would say red was a very bright color and quite pretty, wouldn't you?" Cousin Arthur stared a little closer at the picture of Captain Frank in the H.A.A. News. Suddenly the Vagabond conceived a way to quiet three birds with one slap. "Pardon me," he said...
...returned in a few minutes with a little book under his arm. The four proceeded into Section 48, found their seats, and gazed up at the field. While Cousin Arthur studied his new environment, Uncle Henry tested his glasses to learn if he could see the opposite goal post. The Vagabond took advantage of the silence to hand his girl the little book and announce significantly: "This is a football rule book, so that no one will ask questions." The relatives looked at one another, then at the girl. The rule book passed to and fro, and the Vagabond watched...