Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British television has had a straighter, though slower growth than its U.S. cousin. In all Britain, there is only one telecasting station (in London's Alexandra Palace), and there are only about 30,000 television sets, mostly in the London area...
...globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
Bill of Particulars. The stockholder group was formed by plump, pink-faced Clendenin J. Ryan, 42, well-heeled grandson of the late great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan. Allied with Ryan were Allan Kirby, financial angel of Railroader Robert R. Young, and Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young and a veteran of his proxy battles. Ryan, a heavy investor in l.T. & T. (he now owns over 100,000 shares), was aroused when he failed to get a representative on l.T. & T.'s board. He declared...
...confused with his uncle, John Glenn Pew, President of Sun Shipbuilding Co., or with his cousin, John Glenn Pew Jr., also with the shipbuilding company...
...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...