Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will and conviction equal to, if not greater than, the vaunted fanaticism of the Hun. So, for all these reasons, the fact of Russia is most prominent in the minds of Englishmen, and in their emotions, too. In a word, Soviet Russia is immensely popular. By comparison, their cousin country of America is scarcely noticed; at best, America is taken for granted; at worst, they think a good deal less highly of America than of themselves, which is not very highly...
Having slept in many a foxhole with him, I take TIME to task for a flippantly misleading background sketch of a most able man, neither melancholy nor laconic, and in the vernacular of the "Cousin Jacks" (an Army nickname pinned on Searls because of his fund of Welsh miners' stories) I say "Back...
...Huns raped Cousin Flo, the brutes...
George Emlen Roosevelt, 54-year-old Manhattan yachtsman and investment banker, cousin of the President, has found a personal solution for the housing shortage in Washington. On business visits to the Capital, he buys a round-trip ticket so that he cannot be ejected from Union Station, sleeps there curled up on a bench...
Died. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, 50, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; of tuberculosis; in Davos, Switzerland. Handsome Dmitri in 1916 helped Prince Felix Youssoupov with the patriotic liquidation (poison, many shots) of "Mad Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John...