Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EDUCATION OF A PRINCESS-Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia-Viking ($3.50). Few princesses have had such an "education" as Marie, onetime Grand Duchess of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II, now fashion consultant of Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman. Her bitter schooling has not embittered her. "Princes of reigning families are a race apart-a race that has been for centuries shut off in palaces, protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned...
Also in Chicago last week, in Federal court, Frank Nitti, Al Capone's cousin and reputedly the man who arranges Capone-killings, pleaded guilty to charges of evading payment of $158,823 income taxes, his share of the Capone "mob's" profits for the years 1925-27. With complete candor he explained that the money had been come by through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than...
...tousle-headed man laughed also. But occasionally his eyes looked frightened, his left hand opened and shut nervously. Then the quiet woman would lean toward him, pat his hand. She, Frau Elsa Einstein Einstein, knew that the world must continue making its legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows that der Professor is afraid...
...indifference to practical life, his desire for isolation. Louis Pasteur (1822-95) French chemist, obtained protection by marrying the rector's daughter of Strasburg Academy while he was professor at the University of Strasburg. Emma Wedgwood of the English pottery family became the wife of her cousin, young Charles Darwin (1809-82). Although she loved theatres, gay parties, she was very religious, regretted that Charles was not. He made her promise, however, never to interfere with his work on Evolution. During acute attacks of his 40 years' ill- health she was constantly near his bedside at night, corrected...
...handsome Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94) "Father of Modern Chemistry," married a 14-year-old girl. She learned Latin so that he would not be ashamed of her, taught herself English to translate his articles. Gentle, smiling Mrs. James Watt, first wife and cousin of the steam engine's inventor (1736-1819) had continually to encourage her husband to work...