Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first cousin miles removed from Mrs. Roosevelt in temperament, ideas and political attachments is Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Roosevelt I, relict of the late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth. This week that acid-tongued, political kibitzer, who generally gets credit for most wisecracks uttered in Washington, was put forward by McNaught Syndicate as successor to its late great Will Rogers. Appearing in some 100 newspapers, Alice Longworth's brief daily comment is served hot by telegraph to most subscribers. First sample...
...Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation in to a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...
...country and for having made courage, work and persistence respected in a land where only physical force had any value. . . . The numerous Ministers are generally more or less related to the Emperor and the Emperor considers the granting of a Cabinet post a simple method of calming a noisy cousin or a belligerent vassal. . . . Disorder and misadministration make each Ethiopian Ministry a bottomless barrel into which money flows. . . . Emperor Haile Selassie inherited a savage country. . . . He will never be a leader of men, the chief of the wild hordes that his predecessors were. The Emperor knows this and the knowledge...
...having it last week, in full measure. Rioting swept every city in the land, pro-Gómez newspapers were wrecked, the homes of Gómez adherents were looted, at least 50 people were assassinated. The most important killing was that of General Eustoquio Gómez, a cousin of the old Dictator, who as Governor of the State of Carabobo gained a reputation that smelled to high heaven for torturing political prisoners. Under his orders at least three men were hanged in chains to be eaten by vultures. Attempting an unplanned coup d'é in Caracas, General...
Died. Italy's No. 1 Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them...