Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Alfonso took the night to think things over. A Bourbon to the last, though a 20th Century Bourbon, he spent the evening at a movie show in his palace. With him were his children and Queen Victoria Eugenie, cousin of George V, granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
Died. Lee La Follette Siebecker. 40, Milwaukee lawyer, nephew of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette, cousin of Wisconsin's Governor Philip Fox and Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr.; by his own hand (hanging), because of ill health and financial difficulties (his law partner was a suicide in 1929); in Milwaukee...
...Michael Friedsam, president of B. Altman & Co. (Manhattan department store), art collector, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Manhattan some 70 years ago (not even his friends knew his exact age), son of Collector of Internal Revenue Morris Friedsam, he entered at 17 the employ of his cousin Benjamin Altman. In 1913, at Mr. Altman's death, he became president of the store and of the Altman Foundation (philanthropic). His military title was earned as Quartermaster-General of the New York National Guard during the War. His $10,000,000 art collection he bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum...
...prime spot for socialite artists to exhibit their wares, had a teaparty last week to open their swankiest show of the season. Visitors with slightly buttery fingers wandered through three rooms to see drawings, water colors, etchings and oil paintings by Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, his cousin the Countess Regina Felide Héléne Louise Amadée zu Stolberg-Stolberg, and a Mr. Purcell-Jones...
...drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...