Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard and sighed for days of other years when the Yard was populated by the knowing ones. Stoughton, Hollis, approved by Copey, his thoughts wandered and he glanced at the printed lists which advertise the names of former inmates of the old digs. Ah, here was a cousin of his father's, an old rogue's hangout. And the Vagabond wondered if the word hangout originated as a term for the age-old practice of hanging out one's window to watch parades, fights, riots, lovers, Yard cops, and other civil commotions. He was disturbed to discover that the lists...
...unaware of the difference (if there is any) between a cross potent and a dove proper, and did not write the quoted remarks, he had nothing to do with the correspondence on the subject of an Adams coat of arms. That was left entirely in the hands of his cousin Henry Adams. He simply regretted, speaking for the family, his inability to give what it did not possess. "Curiously enough, in the whole course of his letters to the Harvard authorities the name of no other Boston family was mentioned...
...Atlee Burpee who founded the Burpee firm was a cousin of the California plant wizard. In Burbank's lifetime the Burpees bought seed from the little firm Burbank maintained to help finance his experiments. W. Atlee Burpee began his business in 1878. It gained prestige by introducing the sweet pea from England and more prestige by developing new varieties which were shipped back to England. The present Burpee, David, a man of medium height and thinning hair, became president of the company in 1915 after the death of his father. Born in Philadelphia in 1893, he attended Cornell's agricultural...
...Kent. When Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader Loree and his whole D&H system. This he did with his cousin Philip Wager Lowry, a young lawyer so astute that he kept Belle Livingstone out of trouble for many a month. During the hearings Mr. Loree's men painted a pathetic picture of their Ausable branch line. One train, they claimed, made 50 round trips without a passenger. An average...
...when the du Pont company was celebrating its centennial, the death of Eugene du Pont had left the family's holdings at their lowest ebb. Alfred brought together his cousins Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont and Pierre Samuel du Pont, acquired $12,000,000 worth of stock and a good grip on the company. In 1915 Senator du Pont wished to get out, sold his stock (then worth $56,000,000) to Pierre Samuel du Pont & associates. Alfred, not one of the associates, declared war. There followed a cousinly battle of giants, du Pont against du Pont for great...