Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hirohito's white horse, got encouragement from the Reno Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber ordered a custom-built, silver-mounted saddle for the Admiral, solemnly asked Washington for his beam measurements. "I wouldn't know about the posterior," said his daughter, Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, a distant cousin (by marriage) to Admiral Spruance, "Daddy is about 34 inches around the waist, and his hips aren't much larger. Neither mother nor I has ever measured...
...becoming an ordeal, for 90% of the time when I go in and quietly sit at the bar, the inevitable drunk shows up and, slobbering, offers to buy you a drink, insists on your listening to his tales of what he did in the last war or what his cousin is doing in this one. He hangs onto you for at least an hour. He is the worst pest of all. . . . [A RETURNED VET] Detroit...
Ralph E. Truman, first cousin of the President, and commander of the Army's 35th Division until 1941, was awarded Missouri's Meritorious Service Medal for faithful Sunday soldiering as a Major General in Missouri's State Guard...
Died. Colonel Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 80, Assistant Secretary of War under Harding, Republican Congressman from New York (1923-31), cousin to Jap-imprisoned Lieut. General Jonathan ("Skinny") Wainwright; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A prohibitionist, he retired from Congress rather than vote wet to please his cocktailing constituents in suburban Westchester County...
Prince Carl Johan of Sweden took a firm step forward in the footprints of his cousin, the Duke of Windsor: the 28-year-old Prince was well aware that he could never ascend the Swedish throne if he carried out his vow to wed Kerstin Wijkmark, 35, a once-divorced commoner and editor of The Weekly Review, a publication specializing in cheesecake and syrup...