Word: cousinly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another part of South Africa another kind of food fell from the heavens last week, was greedily gobbled. This food, genuine Biblical manna, descended in a white cloud on a 30-acre field at the farm of Farmer Theunis Botha, cousin of the late great Boer General Louis Botha (1862-1919). Manna, as reported by the careful author of Exodus 16:31 tastes "like wafers made with honey." It is an excretion of the plant louse coccid (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). Its effect upon the eater is mildly cathartic...
...nine medical schools, incontestably the greatest.* This is as the late Sir William Osier wished. He taught there ten years before he went to the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and Oxford, ordered his books and ashes returned there. McGill keeps them, under the guardianship of his cousin's son, Dr. William Willoughby Francis, in a quiet oak-paneled memorial room...
Engaged, William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness (Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle), brother-in-law of Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite...
...different witness was baldish Percy Rockefeller. Shy and beady-eyed, looking to the camera much like his cousin's friend Soul Surgeon Frank Buchman (see p. 22), he was prodded unmercifully by Counsel Gray. He said he could not remember what stocks he had sold last January (12,000 shares), although he had covered them only five or six weeks ago. Mr. Gray could get no substantiation of stories that Mr. Rockefeller, sitting on bank boards, would learn what stocks would be forced on the market at certain figures, after which the bears would force prices down below...
...Goundran, his fisherman godfather, shows him how to sail, to fish. Eusebe, the lecherous old drunken cobbler, tells him fairy tales. Especially does half-witted Anfos, his father's apprentice, worship him, seem to recognize some mystery about the boy. But to his little brother Loup and his cousin Jan he is just a playmate and friend. Now & then something happens to change their minds. At the sight of suffering, Christophe is occasionally overwhelmed with an agony of pity. Once, when Jan strikes at a snake, a welt mysteriously appears across Christophe's back. At such moments...