Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cripple. He had sold his horse to buy bread. He now had nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany. Into a WPAgency he trudged, gave his name as Karl Goering, shruggingly remarked that he is a cousin of peacocky No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring...
...into difficulties. None too ardent a Christian, he attempted to bolster his reign by organizing a federation of tributary Mohammedan States. He promptly found himself excommunicated by the Coptic Church, and shortly thereafter pushed from the throne by his aunt, Zauditu (Judith) with the aid of his cousin, wily Ras Tafari, the present Haile Selassie...
...after waiting two years for Clem Spender, her true love, to return to her, Delia Lowell marries one of the wealthy merchant Ralstons. Six years later her cousin Charlotte comes to her asking for help. Charlotte is about to marry the other Ralston, but on the verge of the wedding learns that her finance will force her to give up the day nursery which she has been running as a pretext to allow her to care for Tina, the child which she has secretly borne to Clem Spender. Delia helps her by offering to suport her and the child...
Event of the week in Rome was the awful squash of 6,000 royal and titled guests at the marriage of Spanish Alfonso XIII's third son Juan, heir-pretender to the Throne, in St. Mary's Basilica to his brunette Italian cousin, Princess Marie-Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave...
...Governor-General approached this week, Canadians rattled off to each other the astonishingly various milestones of his career: Born to a cousin of Gladstone; prizeman at Glasgow Uni-versity and Oxford and President of the Oxford Union; member of the "Balliol Kindergarten";* secret service operative and organizer of the Foreign Office's propaganda bureau during the World War; writer of a World War history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice...