Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unwillingly at home, chafing for news of the show was the Commandos' boss, gay but cutlass-keen Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 41-year-old second cousin of King George, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Lord Louis, who has had four ships shot out from under him in naval action, was recently made head of the Combined Operations Department, now reports only to the Prime Minister...
...circus." But A.P.'s liberalized by-laws did not get a membership for the Chicago Sun. The Sun's application was voted down by the members, 684-to-287. Bluffing, Colonel McCormick himself applied for an afternoon membership. And Colonel McCormick's friendly cousin, Cissie Patterson, applied for a morning and evening membership for her Washington Times-Herald...
...action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted by "culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which one of his chiefs was addicted." The chief frequented "a unique establishment ... the only house of ill-fame in the world whose 'girls' were all more...
...pals-stuffed. Pointing to a fine bear (now a rug) with whom he used to fish, he asks in astonishment: "What happened to him?" "My father shot it," replies the hunter's daughter. Says the wolf-boy: "We missed him six moons ago. He was Baloo's cousin...
...Queen victoria lived in Windsor Castle after Vincent Price died. Eliot Nugent, sworn off of love since his best girl ditched him in Paris, is in our nation's capital trying to solve the "Irish question." Nugent gets into Hepburn's mansion (i.e, on stage) by taking her drunken cousin home from a wedding. He stays for the night, and you learn all that past history when the two principles, who can't sleep, meet downstairs at an early morning hour. Nugent says, "Tell me about yourself," so he does. Then Hepburn says, "Tell me about yourself," so he does...