Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue, you reported . . . that Sam Marx is no relation to Karl, Groucho, Harpo, Chico or Zeppo. You may be right about Karl, but I have it on good authority from my father (Groucho) that he and his four brothers (you left out Gummo) are Sam's second cousins. Up until now tht Marx family has declined to release this valuable information, because: 1) Sam is very touchy on the subject and likes people to think he comes from an austere, strait-laced family; and 2) the Marx Brothers don't want it to get around that a second...
...ever-loving cousin. We are confident he will not only be the first to popularize the atom, but will do the job in radiant Technicolor...
...nation when he said last week: "Our confidence in him is unbounded." For George Marshall viewed China, the U.S. and the world much as they were viewed nearly 100 years ago by his distant kinsman, Humphrey Marshall, U.S. Commissioner to the Celestial Empire in 1853-54. Wrote Cousin Humphrey...
...Cousin Humphrey italicized the word "now." As he went about Washington last week, stressing the importance of U.S. support for China, Cousin George was italicizing the same word...
...General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...