Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Miller, Dorothy Paget's favorite for next fortnight's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree: the Cheltenham Gold Cup, over three miles and three furlongs; at Cheltenham, England; with Thomond II. owned by Miss Paget's cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, second. Next day, a Whitney entry in next week's Grand National-Dusty Foot, ridden by George H. ("Pete") Bostwick-ran second to Ego, in Cheltenham's National Hunt Chase...
...That night 72 Roosevelts & kin dined at the White House. Republican Alice Roosevelt Longworth broke bread with her Democratic fifth cousin. Afterwards the First Lady took five carloads of relatives to the Inaugural Ball. John, her youngest son, escorted Barbara Gushing, sister of his brother James's wife. Around the floor of the Washington Auditorium they shuffled with 6,000 other dancers while 2.000 oldsters watched from boxes. The proceeds went to charity...
...clownish foreign correspondent misbehaving and manipulating news in Moscow. Buckley Joyce Thomas spends part of his time composing highly personalized dispatches for the Chicago Globe, more of it in making love to his employer's mistress, stealing press passes that belong to his confreres, badgering a forlorn cousin of the Romanovs who happens into his office. His amorous intrigues lose him his job; he gets it back by writing a lively account of an attempted assassination staged by having his secretary fire on a Soviet Commissar of police...
When Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II was born into Baltimore's famed Episcopal family 38 years ago, his father was Bishop of Southern Brazil. Growing up there, he was nicknamed "Tui"-Portuguese diminutive for Arthur. He went to Episcopal High School in Virginia, and to the University. A cousin who followed him a few years later became "Little Tui." Off to War v:ent "Big Tui," to serve in the French ambulance corps for two years and finish as a U. S. first lieutenant. He returned with a Croix de Guerre, sold bonds for a time, entered Virginia...
...more to salvage he made the supreme sacrifice of trying to get a job in a mill. But he was just as pleased when there were no jobs to be had: he would rather have starved in the scrub than eat heartily in a town. Meantime his worthless cousin Cleve had married Kezzy, who would much rather have married Lant, but he would never look her way. Instead he courted a little doll from across the river, saw through her just in time. When there was no other way out, Lant took to moonshining, and was making out well until...