Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents in U. S. in 1896. Longtime problem child of Manhattan charitable institutions. Bobbed up, his War years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff. Last April he showed away first class...
Midwifery, not taught extensively in the U. S., interested Mary Breckinridge, daughter of Grover Cleveland's Minister to Russia, granddaughter of John Cabell Breckinridge, Vice President of the U. S. with James Buchanan, great-great-granddaughter of John Breckinridge, Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson, second cousin to Lawyer Henry Breckinridge (Lindbergh baby case). Married and widowed (retaining her maiden name) Mrs. Breckinridge lost two children. In their memory she planned a Nursing Service. With experience as a registered nurse, public health worker in France in 1918 with Anne Morgan's group, student of midwifery in England, she went...
...airdrome. He forgot to release the lock on the fore-&-aft control before he left the ground. His autogyro dropped from an altitude of only 150 ft., crashed & killed Pilot Pierre Martin. Hastily U. S. autogyro manufacturers pointed out last week that the fatal machine was a distant, experimental cousin of their product...
Engaged. Hugh Bullock, son of Banker Calvin Bullock of Denver and Manhattan; and Marie Leontine Graves, cousin of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot...
...cowardly King Mark's Irish bride. Isolde had no eyes for anyone but Tristan, a light-loving, thick-skinned rascal, Mark's hated nephew. That was all right with Palamede. His intentions toward her were almost unbelievably honorable. He never noticed that Brangain. Isolde's pretty cousin, was his for the taking. In the ensuing Christian intrigues heathen Palamede stood firm and pure. But finally he could stand it no longer: in a great hurry he had himself made a Christian and picked a fight with Tristan. When he had given Tristan his death-wound Palamede began...