Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Present head of Charity is rotund, cheery Dr. Roy William Wright, first cousin of defeated Governor Earl Long...
...Deaton, who was with them, stayed downstairs while the Combs boys went up to the meeting room. The Sheriff heard shots, got pinked in the left forearm. Down the stairs tumbled the Combs boys. Lewis was wounded in the back with a .45; Lee was dying. Five men, including Cousin (and county jailer) William Combs, a State Senator and the circuit court clerk were arrested, all were cleared...
White-haired Lawyer Walter Gould Lincoln, eighth cousin of Abraham Lincoln, asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry M. Willis for an injunction to halt cinema showing of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (TIME, Feb. 5). His objection: the film gives the impression that his cousin, who died 75 years ago, was "lazy, shiftless, vacillating and had no ambition...
...Book Four Flem returns from Texas with a string of insanely wild piebald ponies and sells them to his neighbors. They break loose in horrendous slapstick and pervade the countryside. Mink gets a life sentence; Cousin Flem doesn't lift a finger to help him. Two bourgeois and a desperate peasant invest all they have in a plot of land where Civil War treasure is known to be buried. They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else. When last seen, Flem is on his way to larger operations in Jefferson...
...local education and professional good works; he soon realized she was unfit to be trusted. He continued to worship his father for years: but all his father perceived in his diffidence was aversion and stupidity about which, in his son's hearing, he ruefully made jokes. Pathetic Cousin Ella so blackmailed him for pity that it was impossible to pity her. Full-blooded Uncle Ernest, by horning in on his private enthusiasms, ended forever his interest in science. At the school they sent him to he underwent a "gradual blunting of intellectual curiosity, by unimportant information uninterestingly given...