Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets' Corner of the Abbey,* the pallbearers included Kipling's cousin. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Major General Sir Fabian Ware. the Morning Post's Editor H. A. Gwynne. Then to the Abbey floor was added a plain stone inscribed, "RUDYARD KIPLING...
...steel mill worker who holds eight roller-skating records, a commercial artist, a tattooed French sailor who had a lady's portrait scraped off his hip in a fall last fortnight, a golf-club maker and a pretty 21-year-old girl who claims to be a cousin of Herbert Hoover. She, Elizabeth Hoover of Kansas City, with her tall, blond Swedish partner, Wes Aronson of Chicago, was last week leading the Chicago Roller Derby by one lap. Roller Derbies are patterned roughly after six-day bicycle races. Contestants, male & female, sleep in full view of the spectators...
Where would Theodore Roosevelt stand today on the New Deal? Those of his children who are politically articulate and most of his Republican followers have no doubt that he would have stood militantly against it. His fifth cousin Franklin, for whom many a backcountryman was said to have voted in 1932 under the impression that he was again voting for T. R., last week indicated his belief that the 26th President of the U. S. would today be supporting the 32nd President...
...believed that Queen Victoria was "not amused" by the Widow at Windsor and had her revenge by not appointing Rudyard Kipling to the post of Poet Laureate. In 1930, Mr. Kipling was in Bermuda when the death of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges occurred. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Kipling's cousin, had presented him to King George at a levee; the King and Queen had once invited him to be their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George had appointed...
...Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with a Dutchman and a veteran British tiger-hunter, arrived in the U. S. Mr. Huxley represented the Ceylon growers, the Dutchman spoke for Java-Sumatra and the tiger-hunter looked after India...