Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your most affectionate cousin...
King and Dictator call each other "cousin" because they are both members of the Order of Annunziata, all members of which are "cousins of the king" by a pretty fiction of Italian...
When cornered with the question, "But whom do you think Juliana will choose as her Prince Consort?" discreet Dutch gentlemen usually answer, "Perhaps her second cousin, Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach Schoenberg. He is five years older than she and that is good. The Queen Mother favors the match, I hear. She wants to marry her granddaughter to her sister's son. So many foreign Royalties lack qualities we demand of a Dutch prince...
With new financing came new directors. On the Film Board, William Fox himself was a holdover, as were anti-Fox directors Winfield Sheehan and Saul E. Rogers, general counsel. But gone were Fox-Brother Aaron Fox, Fox-cousin Charier Levin. Fox-brother-in-law Jack Leon...
...village ordinance: that none will be admitted to the theatre who have not arrived in town the day before and planned to stay until the morning after, thus contributing two nights' lodging fees. Motorists will find a good new road from Munich. A new Christus, Alois Lang, will succeed Cousin Anton...