Word: cousine
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...confused with his distant cousin, Hambletonian 10, the famous 19th Century American trotting sire, for which the annual harness horse classic at Goshen, N.Y., is named...
When Sir Augustus d'Este (a cousin of Queen Victoria*) fell ill, he made a careful note of his symptoms: he saw double, could scarcely balance himself, felt weak all over, and parts of his body were numb. That was in 1822, and for a century and a quarter, physicians could do nothing more for the illness he described than to give it a name: multiple sclerosis. There are at least 250,000 victims in the U.S. alone; most are disabled by it in the prime of life. D'Este, a typical case, lingered for 26 years...
...attention to a charming fresco in the administration building. Painted about 1550 by the Zucchi brothers, minor artists of the Raphael school, it shows a group of wet nurses feeding foundling children, while in one corner of the scene a plump, placid musician plays a ciaramella or shawm, a cousin of the oboe. This week the hospital's archivist, Professor Pietro de Angelis, was getting ready to publish a startling explanation of the musician's presence: he was there to stimulate the flow of milk...
Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta...
...Cousin Sally a water mocsin...