Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested in South Windsor. Conn, for speeding while driving the car of his cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Robert B. Delano jumped his $20 bail. In Worcester. Mass. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, was arrested for speeding, paid a $5 fine...
...came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, who reigned 24 centuries ago 'from India to Ethiopia, that he put away his proud wife Vashti and espoused a modest, pretty Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when...
...married another German, Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria, and succeeded his uncle as King of the Belgians nine years later. On July 31, 1914 Albert of Belgium rejected the demands of his royal cousin Wilhelm II to give German troops free passage through Belgium to France, and what happened after that all the world knows...
Married. Irene Helen Robbins, 19, only daughter of U. S. Minister to Canada Warren Delano Robbins (cousin of President Roosevelt); and Alexander Cochrane Forbes, 24, Boston socialite (Groton-Harvard) ; in Ottawa. A special train bore some 200 U. S. guests, including Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Ball, many another notable. The bride's mother revealed that young Mr. Forbes had declined an invitation from President Roosevelt to hold the ceremony in the White House...
...killed their fatted calf for him, Adamic changed his mind about making only a short visit. Louis Adamic became again Loyze Adamich. His Uncle Mikha gave him a dressing-down for not writing oftener to his mother. Uncle Yanez put off dying until he had seen his traveled nephew. Cousin Toné asked him to be groomsman at his wedding. Before Adamic had left Jugoslavia it was nearly time for him to be godfather to Toné's firstborn...