Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tradition has it that he was unpopular with the other cadets, though they raised by subscription enough money to publish a book of his poems after he left. At 27, Poe was a moderately successful magazine editor in Baltimore, married to his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm...
...year-overdue engagement ring; but it somehow seems much more cooked up. For Father had soured on engagement rings through being engaged before, and his old love plays a rather comic-strip role in the new play. Life With Mother also gains in interest rather than value through Cousin Cora's marriage and Clarence Jr.'s short-lived engagement to the girl next door...
Later she dropped from the sight of her socialite friends, called herself "Agnes Homberg," and spent months as a cashier, department-store detective and salesgirl. What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...
With his blonde pianist wife, Maria, 47-year-old Edward Sienkiewicz has found a home at the comfortable boardinghouse of Madame Clara Rubinstein, Santiago modiste and cousin of Polish-born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. He likes Chile: "Good climate, good people, and so far from Europe...
...vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn tennis...