Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been altered. Faithful to its original, The Lady of Scandal is fair entertainment, but it never becomes a moving picture. Dénouement-Miss Chatterton, forced to live on trial for six months in the house of her prospective in-laws, falling in love with her fiance's cousin...
...Ruffu Jr., 54, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J., recently acquitted on four of 14 indictments that charged him with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts...
Authoress Marthe Bibesco, not to be confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other...
...Adamses came to Massachusetts from England about 1636, for more than 100 years were good but unremarkable citizens. Then John Adams was born. Educated for the ministry, he became a lawyer, was soon outstanding among public men in Massachusetts. A patriot, like his distant cousin Sam Adams, he was one of Massachusetts' delegates to the first Continental Congress. He nominated Washington as Commander-in-Chief. He was sent to France as Commissioner, later to England as Minister. U. S. Vice President eight years, he succeeded Washington as President, was first occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson...
...Although it ranks 16th in enrolment among U. S. women's colleges, the distinction and importance of Goucher College at Baltimore are disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago's English faculty...