Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Jack Dougherty's bombs stuck. "Let's dive bomb," said Lieut. Ed Magee. The Fortress' wings held on miraculously; the bombs came out; the Jap transport sank. Lieut. Colonel James T. Connally (Senator Tom's cousin), Commander of the 19th from April until July, sank a cruiser, a destroyer, a large transport, at least four other vessels, scored four hits on a battleship. The 19th's Captain Frank Bostrom flew MacArthur into Australia...
...second expert on the recent progress of French monarchism is the Pretender's cousin and advance agent, Charles, Due de Nemours. Throughout the war, on passports including those of the Vatican and the Knights of Malta, sporting young "Chappy" Nemours has shuttled between London (the late Duke of Kent was his boyhood playmate), Vichy (where Marshal Petain sees him instantly and at length) and Berlin. Chappy has also made his headquarters in Madrid, where he used to visit former U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, relative of Chappy's blonde U.S. wife, the former Peggy Watson of Richmond...
...stock (over 85%) into a voting trust, to be engineered by Investment Bankers Schroder Rockefeller & Co. Over half the stock would be owned by Americans and all of the five voting trustees except Yerex himself would be U.S. citizens-among them Schroder Rockefeller Vice President Avery Rockefeller, whose second cousin Nelson is now officially the U.S.'s No. 1 good-neighbor man. Under this deal Yerex could be outvoted four to one by U.S. citizens...
...Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...
...visiting her American relatives. The play's charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its sharp family portraits-Rhoda's rude, snobbish dowager aunt (well played by Margaret Douglass), her healthily lovesick young cousin Daphne, a pert, gold-digging actress who is engaged to Cousin Jimmy (Myron McCormick). The play's romance lies in Rhoda's unspoken love for Jimmy, the intensity of which she understands only after another young man's attentions have released her pent-up feelings...