Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with $15,000 orchid spreads. But he had had a large hand in racketeering's perfection. Born in Brooklyn of an Italian family, he was a "good boy" until he was 17. Then, in a Greenpoint pool room, he knocked down a stranger, thought he had killed him. A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight he was slashed across the left cheek, though later he like to insist that the scar came from War service...
...Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first cousin, the Duchess of Teck...
Unlike Brother-in-Law Bok, with whom he was not particularly intimate, Publisher Martin was not brought up in the publishing business. He married into it. In 1909 he took to wife Alice W. Pillsbury of Milwaukee, daughter of Publisher Curtis's second cousin. A year later, Publisher Curtis made that second cousin his second wife. Two years after, John Charles Martin left the machinery business to run Mr. Curtis's first newspaper, the Philadelphia Public Ledger...
Died. Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, 54, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...
...collection of his sprightly tales: the narrator in each case is the affably reminiscent Mr. Mulliner, who holds forth to his jaw-dropped cronies in the bar of the Angler's Rest. In every case the hero, or the goat, is some pinheaded nephew or vague cousin of Mr. Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they are told in. Uncle Cedric, onetime gnu-hunter, all-time bore, is shot by the vindictive Charlotte; Archibald wins a bride by his one accomplishment, the imitation of a just-successful hen; Roland gets...