Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hope was then only my great aunts, their mother and two brothers too young for military service, one brother was in the Confederate navy and four brothers in the army. Because of the presence of a Northern aunt and cousin then at Mt. Hope who held a pass from Lincoln the home was not burned...
Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
...mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person, gains substantiation when Tim Clarke, her cousin, testifies that when he saw her with somebody she said she was with "no man," a statement which the listeners take to mean that she was with Beelzebub. After that only Roger's opportune horseback arrival could possibly save her life. In spite of valiant effort by a harassed cast, the dialog...
...father was director of the Bombay Art School, little Rudyard was sent "home" to be educated. For nearly six unhappy, browbeaten years of his childhood he boarded with the family of a retired naval officer. Every year he escaped for a month into the happy company of his cousins, the Burne-Joneses, whose house was loud with jolly artistic atmosphere, portentous with such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room...
...elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard girls, was enjoying his favored position as aide to a handsome general when a sharpshooter got him at Chickamauga. Cousin Rives married Lucy Allard and went off to be one of Forrest's scouts. Lucy gradually learned what that meant, got almost used to the idea of his death. When the news came at last, it was hardly more than she had expected. The Allard place was plundered...