Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masquerader (Samuel Goldwyn). John Chilcote, M. P.. harassed by drink, drugs, nervous instability and a vampire mistress, one foggy night bumps into an impoverished journalist cousin who looks exactly like him. The next day. too jagged to make an important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock...
Into the Sausalito, Calif, home of William Foristal Wood, cousin of the late William Howard Taft, walked his neighbor, Howard Meek. Once a ticket-taker on the Sausalito ferry, Meek had lost his job, become insane. He flourished a pistol, held Wood prisoner all night in his home. Next morning he took Wood to San Francisco, registered with him at an apartment hotel as father and son. When Meek went out during the day he bound his victim with wire, taped his mouth, muffled his head in a hood. He made Wood cook their meals, forced him to withdraw...
...like a figure in a bilious dream, is just as unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...
Alfred E. Smith accepted chairmanship of a board of directors which included Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. & Allan A, Ryan Jr. (cousin and brother of Fortune Peter Ryan), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Howard G. Gushing, Major Talbot O. Freeman, A. Newbold Morris, Walter S. Mack Jr. and other socialite young businessmen. They formed Federal Broadcasting Corp. to operate station WMCA in New York City, hoped to form a chain of eleven stations extending as far west as St. Louis. President of the company is John T. Adams, former associate of Donald Flamm, owner of the station. Object : to make a good...
...member of a daringly co-educational experiment. And after her four bright college years an admiring faculty invited her to join them as teacher of grammar. Ella took her job very seriously, even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with her rival's baby. She called the baby Hope, brought her up as her niece...