Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sustained sympathy for the uptight characters. Audiences will probably side with the murderess, who spends all of the early reels trying to manage five minutes alone with her husband. Just as it looks possible, she picks up a pair of binoculars and sees his brother, her mother, her adopted cousin and the caretaker approaching by motorboat...
...were her brother and first cousin...
Britain's staid, state-chartered, non-commercial BBC got snubbed by a colonial cousin last week. The Union of South Africa, leaning toward the U.S. rather than the British pattern, announced that it would experiment with radio advertising. Now dividing its air time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider...
...Along with three other papers whose editorial policy suits the Colonel's liver better: Hearst's Detroit Times and Oakland Post-Enquirer; Cousin Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald...
...Lastly, Cousin Clem, like a good guest, said his thanks. In a jammed House of Commons chamber he told Canadians how much he appreciated what they had done for Britain during the war. With one eye on Canada's evident riches, he could not resist reciting England's shortages-food, coal, "sheets, blankets, curtains, pots & pans and crockery," clothing, shoes, furniture. But all was not dark in the Isles. He quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson: Britain "has a secret vigour and a pulse like a cannon." Canada, he said, is "the new shoot from the old stem...