Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racing abroad and in the U. S. In Europe, it is a fashionable sport. One of the three drivers killed at the Monza Autodrome last year was Count Czaikowski of Poland, whose car overturned and burned when it skidded in the middle of the track. Same day Whitney Straight, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, narrowly missed death when his car skidded on an oil spot. Only U. S. driver entered at Monza last week, Whitney Straight finished ninth, in a Maserati...
...Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years ago in Honolulu's sensational rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932). Daughter Thalia more recently has made headlines by her divorce from Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie...
...Washington, stocky Prince Tsunenori Kaya, first cousin of the Empress of Japan, and his tall, toothy wife, Princess Toshiko, last fortnight peered up at the Washington Monument. "How high is it?" asked the Prince. ''It is 555 ft. 5⅛ in.," replied his guide. "How easy to remember!" exclaimed the Princess. "Just half the Empire State Building." She was not quite right. The Empire State Building...
...scions of America's first family--the Roosevelt. Three members of the Class of 1938, among them the youngest son of the President, bear the Roosevelt name. The three new additions to Harvard's Roosevelts are John, President Roosevelt's youngest son, Kermit Jr., son of Kermit Roosevelt and cousin of Theodore III '36 and Cornelius '37, and Henry Parrish Roosevelt. Already in college in addition to Theodore, III, and Cornelius is Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love with Undine, a visiting cousin from the U. S. When he let himself be seduced by the luscious secretary it cost him both his job and Undine. But the experience had been valuable; back in London he was soon forging ahead, first as secretary to a rising M. P., then as an able underling...