Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hong Kong, where his official regimental duty is second-in-command of Squadron C of the Royal Scots Greys, the Duke of Kent, a captain at 27, picked up another job: Officer in Charge of Go-Karts. But the duke, a cousin...
...female comics are a Miss Milgrim and a Miss Vogel, who play Mrs. Frail, a fashionable lady of little virtue and less money, and Miss Prue, Angelica's country cousin. The one is bright and fatigued; and the other, buxom and spirited, sports a North Country accent that would warm the cold heart of Albert Ramsbottom...
Jowls & Shanks. Pa is nicely played by Buddy Ebsen, 54, the ex-hoofer who last scored on TV as George Russell, constant companion of Davy Crockett. Pa has an oafishly agreeable young cousin named Jethro, who is a l'il weak-minded and has spent a dozen years in the fifth grade at Oxford. Oxford where? No one wonders except the thick-witted Hollywood types who want to know if Jethro went to Eton as a boy. "If I know Jethro, he went to eatin' when he was a baby," says Pa. Jethro is played by Max Baer...
Tears & Fears. Yet even after marrying her fifth cousin once removed, handsome Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor had little confidence in herself, often broke into tears for no clear reason. She was afraid of the nurses who took care of the six children who arrived in ten years, resented her mother-in-law's attempts to dominate her husband. "I do so want you to learn to love me at least a little," she once wrote Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, who had opposed the marriage. She concentrated on her growing family, took little interest in her husband's election...
...least, that is what the leaves are supposed to do. But very soon the reader is lost in the flickering, apparently patternless shift of focus from decade to decade, family to family, nephew to third cousin to great-great-grandaunt...