Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning the Barbados foundered. Captain Hough and eight men (including Joseph Valverde, cousin of the owner) got to the ship's one lifeboat, floated in it off the Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...
Lorenzaccio's Libretto proved to have greater distinction than its music. The central character is a henchman in the court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio...
...find oneself basking in the midst of fifty six of the world's most pulchritudinous young ladies is considerably worse than being under the scrutiny of any number of Aunts intent upon finding resemblances of dear departed Cousin Oswald. But for all of that familiar fish-estranged-from-water feeling there was plenty of compensation behind the scenes of Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" during an evening performance. But the chief substance of this is that from the point of view of an eye witness the far famed fifty six have earned their title...
Married. Margaret Helen Phipps, granddaughter of late Steelman Philanthropist Henry Phipps (died two weeks ago), cousin of Poloist Winston Guest, niece of Socialite Mrs. Bradley Martin; and J. Gordon Douglas Jr., son of Mrs. Graf ton Winthrop Minot of New York; at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City...
...sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies, Matey goes to Rustdorf, sleepy Hudson River town, to collect a legacy, meets her distant cousin Adrian, marries him and settles down. But both have lived in France ; when the War comes, both feel a duty to help. They take their children abroad, Adrian drives an ambulance, Matey helps her old friends. When they finally get home again to Rustdorf, middle age has nearly got them...