Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Grandfather Golovaty left his bees to their own hard-working devices, journeyed to town for the ceremony of presentation. To Major Yeremin he imparted some grandfatherly instruction: ". . . revenge my son Stepan, and my cousin Ivan . . . and all the sorrow and suffering which the Hitlerite invaders have caused...
...citizen, he was born in a district of old Austria-Hungary which became part of Yugoslavia after World War I. His father was Yugoslav Minister of the Interior until he was exiled for opposing the late King Alexander's dictatorship-and Stoyan today has one cousin who is a lieutenant colonel on Tito's general staff, another who is an official on the Partisan National Committee...
Betty Smith, author of the best-seller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and her publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived...
...reason the tabloid News has the biggest U.S. circulation (2,004,000 daily and 3,700,000 on Sunday), according to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's editorial, is that people approve of its "America First" line. Joe Patterson drew the same conclusion about his cousin Bertie McCormick's mighty Chicago Tribune and his sister Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. He noted that they were tops in circulation in their cities, too. Said the News...
Both brothers are still active pilots but have shown special talent for organization and administration. Both are bighearted, good-cousin Texas types, with a slightly fatherly air toward young airmen. Barney is a shade more demonstrative, Benny a shade more reserved. They like the same recreations-bridge, poker, hunting-and enjoy a companionable highball, although they have shocked their Texas friends by developing a mutual preference for Scotch over bourbon...