Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macaulay bestow more love and scholarship than on Pleasure of Ruins, her unique evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve in color, make a perfect setting for Dame Rose's text. In these pages the wayfarer irresistibly shares the author's "intoxication, at once so heady...
...what were described as "indecent acts." In addition, 35 cases of Scotch whisky were conveniently found in his palace cellar, thus proving him a bad Moslem as well as an indiscreet amorist. The royal family got the message. Denouncing his "flagrant misbehavior," it deposed Sakr, installing his pro-British cousin, Khaled bin Hamad al-Kasimi, 35, in his place. The unhappy Sakr, flown into exile by the R.A.F., was greeted in Cairo as a hero of the Arab cause...
...younger sister Katharine, 41, is the wife of New Jersey Physician Hugh Auchincloss, a first cousin once removed of Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather...
...aching spinster realizes too late that a Spaniard's flesh-and-blood instincts are his surest defense against omnipresent death. Ready at last to welcome Ramiro's attentions, Tula learns that during a holiday visit to a neighboring village, he seduced her nubile cousin and now must marry the girl. She turns on Ramiro in black Spanish fury, maddened for the moment by the realization that unyielding virtue has robbed her of love, husband, children...
...Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and they have an estimated 400 royal relatives in Germany. The name of the British royal house was changed in 1917 by George V, Elizabeth's grandfather, from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (whereupon Kaiser Wilhelm II, George's first cousin, gleefully called for a performance of The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Philip is a Mountbatten, a name also Anglicized in 1917 from Battenberg...