Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orphaned childhood. Her Grandmother Hall raised her at Tivoli, on the Hudson. Mrs. Roosevelt recalls that twice a day she was expected to walk up & down a road on the estate with a cane hooked under her arms behind her back. She was two and her sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...
...Woman's Home Companion. Her ingratiating daughter Anna Dall, who has her mother's long legs and vivacity, remains available for advertising, since her broadcasting contract with Best & Co. expired. By no means as brilliant a White House daughter as "Princess"' Alice Roosevelt (Longworth), her second cousin, she and her children "Sistie" (Anna Eleanor) and "Buzzie" (Curtis Roosevelt) do warm and brighten the place tremendously in contrast to the Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover atmospheres. Since her estrangement from her stockbroking husband, Anna Dall remains in Washington, pours tea for her father's guests during...
...pages indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt has spread her talent very thin. It is not half so rich and keen a book as her cousin Alice's, published simultaneously (TIME, Nov. 6). Nevertheless, the volume and catholicity of subjects Eleanor Roosevelt touches on-from preparing stuffed eggs to the NRA-proves her once more a lady of illimitable interests. Excerpts...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
...Facts were these: Shortly after Crawford was arrested, his lawyers went before the U. S. District Court of Boston's Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's ex-president, and pleaded for a stay of the extradition order. Judge Lowell, an aging, flashily-dressed eccentric who was rebuked by the Supreme Court last May for telling a jury that a witness must have been lying because he nervously wiped his hands, granted their plea. His legal reasoning was that since Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries, any conviction of George Crawford would be voided...