Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cown ¶George V by the Grace of God King, Emperor of India and Defender of the Faith looks almost exactly like the late Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and has never forgiven Bolsheviks for butchering his first cousin. Last week, as Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace...
...British pacifist yet he believes in what he calls "the eternal sacrament of war." In his career, he goes slowly and prudently, saves all his violent and romantic impulses for his books. He married a daughter of the rich Grosvenor clan, the Duke of Westminster's second cousin once removed...
...last few years, professional prizefight promoters & managers as well as the public have taken a lively interest in the Golden Gloves. Light-heavyweight Champion Bob Olin, cousin of a News cameraman, got his start as a Golden Glover in 1928. So did Lightweight Champion Barney Ross, in 1929. Currently, most notable Golden Gloves alumnus is Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis of Detroit who won the Golden Gloves championship last year after knocking out 43 of his 54 amateur opponents. Since turning professional, Heavyweight Louis has had 17 fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week...
...brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket and one of Capone's lieutenants. A goodhearted, not too brainy racketeer, he supported Peter, kept trying to persuade him to join his mob. But Peter wanted to be a writer. Moreover he had run across his cousin Jack, who had become an I. W. W. organizer, and whose devotion to the labor cause gave Peter something else to think about. While Jack languished in San Quentin, Peter to his horror fell in love with Jack's wife. To give him something to settle on, Adamic suggested...
...Mother, son, imbecile daughter and her two children live in squalor in a one-room house on 40? a day when the son can find work. The daughter, again pregnant, freely admitted various parentage of her chifdren, the father of one being the girl's cousin...