Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Recessional? Cousins are Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Poet Rudyard Kipling, at whose home the statesman first met his invaluable, bouncing Wife Lucy. Last week sturdy Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take time out to attend the Spithead sea pageant. Cousin Kipling, on the other hand, had been so fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria...
...chairman is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, eleven years older and a good deal wiser than the young man of 24 who first paddled and portaged to Flin Flon. He has done his part to uphold the Whitney tradition as the first sporting family of the land, but, like his first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where...
Fleeing Yankee soldiers after his first killing, "Wes" Hardin ambushed them, killed three. Then he hid in central Texas and, with his cousin "Simp" Dixon, killed two more, which made him a popular Texan in the eyes of ex-Confederates. At 16 Hardin, mocked by a desperado who stole his gun and boots, salved his pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed...
...informed." No one knows why "Wild Bill" always called Hardin "Little Arkansas." They became friends again, but that night Hardin lost prestige by killing a cowpuncher. He only regained it when he killed a Mexican rustler two days later. Within four days he was in trouble again: when his cousin was arrested Hardin made a deal with "Wild Bill" for his release, was double-crossed, killed a hired assassin, escaped, trapped a posse, disarmed and undressed them, sent them home naked...
...collection of sketches dealing largely with Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas scenes and characters, Feliciana offers few surprises to readers of So Red the Rose. Sitting in an old plantation house, the author broods over the career of a dead kinsman, Cousin Micajah, who loved the girl his brother loved and joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire...