Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors of New York State. In each case the Governor was a Roosevelt. Thirty-two years ago Theodore Roosevelt ousted a district attorney, not because he was charged with inefficiency, but because he declined to assist in prosecuting local election frauds. Last week T. R.'s fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, removed from office burly Sheriff Thomas M. Farley...
Constance Bennett is 26, blonde, 105 lb., married (to the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye). Her adopted son (Peter, offspring of a cousin), is three. She has blue eyes and is one inch taller than...
...years. As scientific tender for this request, he last week reported that he had concentrated the relatively vast amount of 1/400,000th of a gram of alabamine in combination with lithium, light-weight brother of fugitive virginium. The pinch of new compound may well be termed a second cousin of common kitchen salt...
...Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...paintings from his two estates, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. The Marquess is better known to U. S. citizens as Philip Henry Kerr, lecturer and onetime private secretary to David Lloyd George. He was a member of last summer's Round Table Conferences on India. Second cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, he succeeded to his title last March at the death of his first cousin, the tenth Marquess. Last week's sale of his library was largely necessitated by heavy taxes on the estates which he had inherited with his title...