Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago he was born in Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had his cousin Jim for playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work as cash...
...consists principally of whether or not there has been a family history of deafness, consanguinity, hereditary syphilis or meningitis. It seems, however, that inquiry regarding the drugs given the mother during pregnancy may yield information quite as important as whether the patient had a great uncle or a second cousin who was deaf. If a large number of otologists will in future, when dealing with cases of children with nerve deafness, be careful to include in the usual questionnaire the history administered to the mother during pregnancy, there may in due time be collected sufficient data to establish prenatal medication...
...Duke of Cambridge, cousin of Edward VII, who was married morganatically to Louisa Fairbrother...
Director Guthrie McClintic deserves high praise for the splendid culminating scene between the cousins. The daughter, who believes her mother is merely an old maiden cousin and whose real attachment is to Delia, is about to marry. For the first time in the long jealous warfare between them. Delia relents, makes the daughter promise to save her last farewell kiss, before she goes on her honeymoon, for Charlotte...
Last week the following were news: William McCormick Blair, first cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair...