Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter on the bridge of the Victoria & Albert, near but not beside King George who stood out alone, clearly visible to every ship in the line, saluting like an automaton for two full hours. Near Princess Elizabeth, doing his best to answer her questions, was King George's cousin and personal naval A.D.C., Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Queen's dark glasses were unnecessary. It was not raining but visibility was so poor that only two or three ships of the line could be seen at one time...
...widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead of 133, the new Legislature is perhaps even more easily influenced than the old. Governor Cochran's legislative spokesman and the session's outstanding member, 35-year-old Charles Albert Dafoe of Tecumseh (fourth cousin of the Dionne Quintuplets' Doctor) observed last week: "It remains to be seen whether or not a small membership will oe more susceptible to lobbying by special interests. I believe it may be desirable in future to increase the member ship...
Seventy-four years ago Frederik's beauteous great-aunt Alexandra traveled from Copenhagen to London to marry robustious Edward of Wales, who became King Edward VII, who begat George V, who begat Edward VIII, who abdicated in favor of George VI (Danish Frederik's second cousin), whose Coronation was at once the most splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik...
Died. Captain the Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, 61, polo-playing onetime (1921-22) British Secretary of State for Air, cousin of British Tory Winston Churchill, father of famed U. S. Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest; of pleurisy; at Sunbury-on-Thames, England. His wife, steel heiress Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, backed Amelia Earhart Putnam's first transatlantic flight in 1928 when Captain Guest dissuaded her from attempting the adventure herself...
...means the only law officer accused. Star witness was thick-necked, freely-sweating Thomas R. Middleton, who served five months for bootlegging before he was elected High Sheriff of Harlan County in 1934. Member of one of the section's largest families. Sheriff Middleton once had a distant cousin named Elman Middleton who was prosecuting attorney of Harlan County and started a crusade for miners' rights. Two years ago Cousin Elman stepped on his automobile starter, went up in a confetti of steel, flesh and dynamite. Since 1934, said the sheriff, he had appointed 379 deputies, of whom...