Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nervous and shy, he was a poor student in school and made few friends. Once, told by his mother to kiss a cousin, "I went obediently up and she drew me towards her; but at the sight of her bare shoulder and its dazzling whiteness, some sort of craziness possessed me; instead of putting my lips to the cheek she offered me, fascinated by her dazzling shoulder, I gave it a great bite . . . My cousin screamed with pain and I with horror. She began to bleed and I to spit with disgust...
Gide published his first book, anonymously and at his own expense, when he was 21. The Notebooks of Andre Walter (1891) was the thinly disguised story of his own neurotic love for his cousin Emmanuele. Novelist-Critic Charles Huysmans promptly labeled it "a product of hideous vulgarities." Few people read it and fewer still bought it; but it admitted Gide to Paris' literary set. It brought him the acquaintance of Maeterlinck, D'Annunzio, Whistler, Gauguin, Rodin and Mallarme...
...Grandson of Michigan Governor Henry H. Crapo (1864-68) and cousin of Automaker William Crapo Durant...
...first cousin of Senator Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa...
After a military victory that Hitler demanded but didn't get, Metropolitan Basso Alexander Kipnis and Cousin Leonid, who had bought negatives of the film from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, made a distribution deal with United Artists. Last week, under the title Kings of the Olympics, Leni's work began its first general U.S. showing. Leni would scarcely recognize her handiwork...