Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to my cousin, Dr. Lois Gannet. the Hon. W. E. Edge "frequently 'chaunks' in Paris" instead of "chomps...
...Worthy Compeer," Most cheerful events in Japan's capital last week was the farewell round of banquets to William Cameron Forbes, soon to be succeeded as U. S. Ambassador in Tokyo by Joseph Clark Grew, a cousin by marriage of John P. Morgan...
...Blue Valley Farmer, with a claimed circulation of 80.000 and no free list, is owned by Oklahoma's Governor William Henry Murray, his wife Alice, his cousin Cicero. In answer to the widespread charge that Murraymen capitalize on it; owners' official position to solicit advertising and subscriptions, Governor Murray has announced that he would dismiss any employe so doing. Many a Blue Valley Farmer advertiser reports satisfaction with results...
Particularly good this week seems the following crop of new books about Russia:* The Fall of the Russian Empire (which was enormously larger than the ancient Roman Empire) is a sombre stage across which Grand Duke Alexander, cousin and brother-in-law of Nicholas II, handsomely strides in his new autobiography. For several years "Sandro" (the Grand Duke) and "Nicky" (the Emperor) lived with their wives in adjoining suites in the same palace. In Alexander's book, already a best seller, there are epic passages of solemn grandeur and there is enough spice to suit spice-hounds...
...Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings. Mediterranean peoples eat a smaller sardine (Sardina pilchardus sardina). Japanese, Chileans and Boers eat the Sardina sagax. Southern Australians and New Zealanders eat the Sardina neopilchardus. But in the U. S. any small fish of the herring family is a sardine, provided it comes in a can. Official U. S. attitude on the sardine question was clarified last week by Dr. A. C. Hunter of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Said he: "Members of the herring family classed as sardines include not only the true sardine...