Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czechoslovak papers scare-headed that "King Alfonso will soon flee to his cousin's castle in the Slovak Alps...
...behind him the beginnings of the Sash family. His only-son, James, was a mild-tempered man, who spent most of his life fighting the Indians, French, English. After the wars were over, he married a beautiful nun and settled down to practice law in Frankfort. One day his cousin Jarrot Bensalem murdered him. James's partner, also a mild-mannered man, took care of Cousin Bensalem...
...when the Civil War was getting itself ready. When fighting began, there were Sashes in both armies. Wickliffe Sash, a captain in Morgan's raiders, got home for the last time to see his fiancee, found her in love with a Yankee officer. Elisha Abel, Wickliffe's cousin, was luckier. A Federal major, he came unscathed through the fighting in Tennessee, brought home a pretty wife to his Kentucky estate...
...night. She finally got a complex on the subject and used to talk to her unconscious mother when they were alone. When the rest of them prevailed on Rachel to take a vacation she thought it almost sinful to leave her post, but when she got to her cousin's seaside cottage, among boys & girls her own age, she forgot her Mission and had a good time. Clive, poor but brilliant embryo-scientist, fell in love with her immediately, swept her off her feet. But their engagement grew longer & longer. When he got a flatteringly good job in Zurich...
...company that brings "Strictly Dishonorable" to Boston does thorough justice to the play. The innocent but charming Isabel, who weakens at the sight of a handsome Italian Count is played by Flobelle Fairbanks, cousin to the daring Douglas. She makes one realize that Yoakum, Mississippi is still to be visited by her, but she gets across the idea that it is more pleasant to be bad in a speakeasy than good in East Orange, New Jersey with considerable amount of restrained passion. (It really only takes a bit of common sense to come to that conclusion.) The amiable old judge...