Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expense rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall, he is a veteran of artillery, camel cavalry, a general of the Italian Air Fleet. Against the strong...
...Soon to be announced are production plans for Standard of N. J.'s new synthetic Butyl, a chemical cousin of Buna, developed by Standard chemists, made more cheaply than Buna from petroleum gases...
...Newest entry in the field is Ameripol, a polymerization of U. S. materials proudly announced this summer by Goodrich. Developed secretly in Goodrich's laboratory, Ameripol is also a Buna cousin, is so good that Goodrich is now producing around 150 Ameripol tires a day, claims that they wear as well as natural rubber, show more resistance to heat, aging, sunlight...
...Communist intellectuals, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was more than a gentleman - he was a bourgeois Bolshevik. He exuded respectability, which - next to an aura of romantic criminality - is the quality middle-class Marxists most prize. Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and subacid wit had done as much as any one intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces...
Last week Philadelphia brimmed with comedy, tragicomedy and a few dashes of pure drama. First tragicomedy came when a 42-year-old elephant named Lizzie died at the Zoo, prompting the New Dealish Record to watch for other signs of impending Republican doom. Last week Lizzie's cousin Josephine had been named official symbol of the Republican Party...