Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Withers. Like Captain January, Gentle Julia is a star's ve-hide, perambulator size. It exhibits Miss Withers as Florence Atwater, small niece of the heroine of Booth Tarkington's famed novel. She spends her time disrupting the flirtations of Julia Atwater (Marsha Hunt), blackmailing her small cousin (Jackie Searle), annoying her grandfather, snubbing her aunt's most impressive beau. She has an attachment for a shaggy young newspaperman (Tom Brown). By the time the picture ends, she has safely married him off to Julia...
...Harriman, a onetime Louisville belle named Grace Carley, married a broker cousin of the late Railroader Edward H. Harriman 45 years ago, has since been a prominent Manhattan socialite. A large, determined, forthright lady, Mrs. Harriman thinks it is a shame that millions of U. S. dollars are exported for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes and other foreign lotteries when they might be kept at home. People who agree with her to the extent of paying $1 to join her Conference automatically become eligible to enter a "Selection Sweepstakes." Here they are called upon to display their skill and judgment...
...succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death in 1928. In his later years active command was in the hands of his first cousin, William Larimer Jones, regarded in his day as the ablest operating man in the industry. Benjamin Franklin Jones III and William Larimer Jones Jr., their respective sons, are today young vice presidents, directors and executive committee members...
Back of this metamorphosis from indigent irregularity to smart success lay a story of shrewd publishing enterprise. In 1932 Nelson Doubleday of the house of Doubleday, Doran groaned, in anguish when he surveyed the unbalanced balance sheets of The American Home and its stylish cousin, Country Life. Together the magazines were losing him nearly $60,000 a month, and of this the greater share was chargeable to The American Home, 10? home-furnishing monthly founded...
...Chicago Tribune, first cousin of the News, has long made it a point to beleaguer venereal quacks. The News decided to try to make it as easy for the masses to get correct information about venereal diseases as about tuberculosis. Newsman Carl Warren was told to turn out a series of articles on social diseases, how to cure them, where free treatment might be obtained. Last week the Warren articles were bound in a pamphlet, titled Venereal Diseases & Prophylaxis, priced at 5?, put on sale in the News Information Bureau, where the helpful journal also peddles at nominal rates sound...