Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried forward the Reform torch fallen from the hands of the late Tom Johnson, famed tribune of the people who fought for a 3? carfare. The South could be made to remember that Newton Baker's father rode with Jeb Stuart in a company commanded by a Baker cousin and manned by 20 Baker first cousins...
...years of warfare hundreds of Italian soldiers and at least 20,000 Senussites have been killed. No less a person than little King Vittorio Emanuele's own cousin, the Duke of Apulia, harried the Senussites mightily from the sky. Last winter their ultimate fate was sealed when General Graziani cut them off from fleeing into Egypt by building a formidable barbed wire fence 180 mi. long...
With President Hoover's blessing so patently on Brother Theodore's head, it now behooved Theodore's Republican kin to get behind the Hoover candidacy for reelection. The family was scattered. Settled quietly at Oyster Bay was Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the President's other daughter. Cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt was serving as Detroit's comptroller. Brother Kermit was running a steamship line in Manhattan. Brother Theodore, adding fresh lustre to the name, was starting out for the other side of the world. Alice remained in Washington, perhaps to try to woo Hoover support from such a vehement anti-Hooverite...
Proudest of the ex-Kings is Alfonso XIII of Spain. Though the world is welcome to the knowledge that haemophilia taints his family's blue blood, nobody must suspect that he is financially strapped. When Alfonso broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make...
...Founded in 1888 by Jules Cousin, librarian of the arsenal of Paris. He gave the city his own immensely valuable collection of books and prints relating to Paris, which were housed in the palace where once lived that greatest ot letter writers, Mine de Sevigne. The Carnavalet gained world fame under the late great Georges Cain, who knew more about Paris than any man who ever lived, originated the plan, later adopted by museums of all sorts all over the world, of humanizing his exhibits by taking them out of show cases, placing them in completely furnished rooms...