Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gimbel Brothers. Bernard's brother Frederic, a vice president, has made newspaper trouble for the family in a small way; breach-of-promise suits have taken him twice to court, though never to the altar. But the only real rift in the clan was between Bernard and his cousin, old Ellis' brilliant son Richard...
...special casualty was President Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...
...Senate last week their Commander in Chief sent a recommendation that their distant cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the 26th President of the United States, be raised to the rank of Brigadier General...
...school receives its name, does not reveal the origin of the name. Ogontz was an old Indian who served as a houseman in the home of my grandfather Erasmus Cooke at Sandusky, Ohio. My father often related to me how Ogontz used to carry him and also his cousin, the first Jay Cooke, piggie-back through the woods. When Jay Cooke and my father came to Philadelphia to enter the banking business, memories of Ogontz were so vivid that when Jay Cooke built his handsome home in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he called it Ogontz. The district then came...
...lexicon of U.S. slang, Brooklyn-reared Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck added her two cents' worth. When her director and a pair of writers, working on Ball of Fire, were stymied for a line, she volunteered: "I'll just walk up . . . and say, 'What's buzzin', Cousin?' That's the way we do it in Brooklyn...