Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonial Airways System (now part of American Airways, Inc.). With him is associated Clinton Elliott, whose father as president of Eastern Advertising Co. developed the rapid transit advertising field in New England. Adman Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, for which he was decorated by the U. S., French and Belgian governments. Before...
...ashore to collect for himself the bounty on his Civil War enlistment; of the taller, young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter of a distant cousin of the late, great Jefferson Davis; of how he began building the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but left town after his aide fatally shot a prominent lawyer; of how, pausing in New York on his way to Europe the next year (1883), he found the faltering World for sale...
...death mask of the late Queen Louise of Prussia, the famed flute of Frederick the Great, a pair of duelling pistols given by Napoleon I to General Kléber, and many another trinket formerly preserved at Klein-Glienicke Castle, Potsdam, Germany by Prince Friedrich Leopold Hohenzollern, cousin of the former Kaiser, went on the auction block. While plebeian agents refrained from bidding, Representatives of Kaiser Wilhelm bought Frederick the Great's gold watch. Prices: watch, $1,190; pistols...
...christened Elsa von Wenden, began drawing at the age of three, illustrated the Bible and Oliver Twist (as told by her sister) at six. At 17 she married Jorg von Reppert-Bismarck, not many years her elder, whose great-grandfather was the great Bismarck's first cousin. Her husband gave her the nickname "Jack" which she signs to all her paintings, and which he pronounces "Jake...
Died. Louis Mann, 65, stage and cinema character actor, cousin of the late Representative Julius Kahn of California; of cancer; in Manhattan. Famed for his high stiff collars, his stuttering German comedy dialect, he had been on the stage for 62 years, in Friendly Enemies, The Man Who Stood Still (long run smash hits), The Second Fiddle, The Whirl of New York, Sins of the Children (cinema...