Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next war will be partly my fault," said Miss Zara duPont, "because I didn't kick hard enough." An active lady of nearly seventy, the first cousin of the Wilmington munition manufacturers is a vigorous worker for peace...
...Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation into a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...
...picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats (see cut p. 21). Tough, dynamic General Kondylis is a great admirer of Benito Mussolini and has thought of himself as ruling Greece with a mere fop on the Throne. George II is, however, a first cousin once removed from George V and no fool, though perfectly willing to take a dignified back seat as the flesh & blood emblem of a Constitutional Monarchy. Last week Greece's Dictator had made all arrangements for His Majesty to come home by way of Italy, visiting the tomb...
...found an Earl ("Ox"') Key, Southern Methodist star ten years ago, who insisted that U. C. L. A.'s Key was "Ted" Key all right and he should know because he was his brother. Then another Robert F. Key turned up who claimed he was a cousin of U. C. L. A.'s Key but that that Key was not "Ted" but "Shorty," and he should know because he had lent him his high-school credentials so he could get into U. C. L. A. After a week of this kind of nonsense...
HANDS-Charles G. Norris-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Three generations in a San Francisco family, retelling the stock melodramatic situation of a man who married his cousin only to discover that, because of his father's sins, he had actually married his sister...