Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played in 12th-Century England and by the time of Henry VIII had provoked such a riotous fever of ambling that even that riotous monarch put it down by law. First notable U. S. player was George Washington, who had a bowling green* at Mount Vernon. A fresh-air cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts assembled in Chicago's Jackson Park...
Bowler McArthur's skill was further rewarded when he and his curly-haired cousin Lachlan M. (also for nothing) beat M. R. Sleater & Robert Bowie of the Essex County Club (N. J.), 24-to-12, to win the doubles title. In the singles, Chicago Lawn completed its clean sweep of national championships when one-armed William Milmine almost bowled Detroit's J. S. Weir off the green in the final...
...Louis came out of his War experiences too cynical to be interested in politics, although his views were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried...
...Commissionership of Immigration, vacant since Daniel W. MacCormack died last January, the President appointed his cousin Laura Delano's husband, James Lawrence Houghteling, onetime vice president and treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...
Engaged-Norman Selby ("Kid Mc-Coy"), 63, onetime (1896-97) welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...