Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull is Spain's chief animal. He is a descendant of the wild bulls that roamed the Iberian peninsula, a closer cousin of the African Cape buffalo than of any domestic cattle. Spanish ganaderías (bull-raising establishments) raise their bulls in a wild state. Carefully bred to bring out all the courage of the strain, the best specimens are rigorously tested, the tame ones weeded out to be butchered. Those raised to fight are never allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones...
...little of that is enough for her. She wants children, marries a wealthy cousin Ben Terwogt. The children come, but not happiness. On a summer holiday she runs into Alf. He declares that she had been his only love. Once more she has a chance, but, though it breaks her heart, she turns it down. In the masquerade of Delft society she has chosen her own false face, and now must live...
Socially famed for his weary observation that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty windowpane" is the King of Denmark's excessively tall, sardonic, adventurous cousin Aage. Last week Prince Aage startled smart Paris by announcing: "With my wife I am going back to Morocco. The French Government has kindly permitted me to re-enlist in the Foreign Legion with my former rank of captain. I shall be on active service. My business career, which began in Paris a year ago, has proved infinitely disappointing...
Engaged. Prince Gustave Adolphe, grandson of King Gustave of Sweden; and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, his second cousin...
Died, Easton Boiling, consulting engineer (heating & ventilating), cousin...