Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, brother-in-law of David Sinton Ingalls, Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite...
...pronouncement on the Mayor's bonds came out, Governor Roosevelt blandly smiled away the Walker case with: "I have nothing to say." One day later when he saw press headlines passing the matter on to him the Governor suddenly began to sound like his late, great, gusty fifth-cousin Theodore...
Died. Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury Curtis, second wife and second cousin of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; of heart disease; in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where her husband, 81, lay seriously ill. Born in Bangor, Me. she married first Lumberman Harrison M. Pillsbury, resided in Milwaukee until after his death in 1903. In 1910 she married Publisher Curtis whose first wife (the former Louise Knapp, the first editor of Publisher Curtis' Ladies' Home Journal) had died that year...
...native Scots, though the equation of antagonistic stocks is quickly abandoned for the familiar and more personal geometry of the triangle. "Three Loves" is really the story of a woman whose impulsive nature is excited into jealousy by an ambiguous though fundamentally innocent relationship between her husband and his cousin. The manner in which one such ambiguity generates another, and ends by alienating the heroine from her husband, from her son, and finally from the religion in which she has taken refuge, is distinctly suggestive of the manner of Thomas Hardy. Dr. Cronin's literary sojourn in Wessex is perhaps...
There are times for the Vagabond, as for every man, when the apple turns to ashes on his palate, when the burden and the mystery prey on his spirit. He turns from the shallow comfort of the penny-a-liners to the mordant voice of Housman. Like Archduke's cousin, he sees the symbol of it all in a handfull of dust. Like Swift, he celebrates his birthday as a time of mourning, and all neighbors join in. Life is a poor thing, bitter and mocking and the phrase of Solon runs in his mind...