Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over-the-counter market, where Tommy shares are traded, is usually quiet. So are Tommy shares. But last week both boiled. Brokers, their bookkeepers in a quandary, demanded an explanation. At last, straight-lipped, youthful Frederic A. Willis, Tommy gun's vice president and cousin of England's scrappy Prime Minister Winston Churchill, gave his reason for the clandestine payment: "to avoid speculation" in the stock...
...drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to make them herself. Soon hardly a wedding anywhere around was complete unless the bride got one of Catherine Evans' bedspreads...
Chester had his first affair (with a Creole cousin) at nine, now has a young married woman as his mistress. Ashamed of his family (his brother is a prize fighter), Chester is often depressed, fears that poverty may prevent him from going to college and becoming a doctor. Once a white man chased him with a gun because, while hawking newspapers, Chester refused to stop yelling: "Louis K.O.'s Braddock." Chester says he hates white people. When white folks humiliate him, he "sees red," but is afraid to fight back...
Died. Dane Coolidge, 67, bronzed, bearded naturalist and prolific New England-born author of Western novels; third cousin of Calvin Coolidge, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden; in Berkeley, Calif...
...wife, wife's brother's daughter, wife's sister's daughter. If the report is accepted, the Church of England will once more be in line with civil law. The commission still urged "grave biological and some other objections to marriage between first cousins." quoted famed Biometrist J. B. S. Haldane, who testified that if first-cousin marriages were prohibited, England would have fewer mental defectives, deaf-mutes, still-born children...