Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories. He delighted in large pale cigars and French red wine. He went stag hunting every autumn and celebrated every kill with a carefully chosen dinner. Last year three things happened to change his entire life. To the amazement of social Berlin, confirmed Bachelor von Schleicher married his cousin, became a Generalleutnant, and developed political ambitions...
Page Pygmalion (Carl Henkle, author; Alan Merrill, producer) is an abortive farce about a young sculptor who is in love with his model but wants to marry an heiress. The sculptor's cousin John from Oklahoma City (Robert Emmett Keane) has the bright idea of persuading the model to mount a pedestal and simulate the statue for which she posed. Having heard many things, the model astonishes a large gathering by coming down off her pedestal and announcing that the heiress is. the illegitimate daughter of a janitor. The sculptor gives up sculpting, marries the model, returns to Oklahoma...
...surprising but, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's managers well appreciate, such ignorance is not confined to far lands. Last fortnight one Chester Burger, 11, of Brooklyn, N. Y. wrote to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th President of the U. S., requesting her autograph, praising "your cousin," the Democratic presidential nominee. Replied the Widow Roosevelt: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a distant [fifth] cousin of my husband. I am a Republican and voting for Herbert Hoover." Last week Widow Roosevelt at her summer home in Brooklyn, Conn, revealed that some 300 U. S. persons had written to congratulate...
...NichoIas Roosevelt is a second cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., then Governor of Puerto Rico, was faintly "mentioned" for the vice-presidential nomination...
...next month for Panama to hunt the bush master, largest, deadliest of vipers. Sometimes 12 ft. long with 2-in. fangs, the bush master carries enough venom to kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within...