Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married his dealer's cousin, Saskia van Uylenborch, a gentle, kindly girl of excellent family with a dowry of 40,000 guilders (about $16,000). He bought a fine house in the ghetto, still preserved in Amsterdam as the Rembrandt-huis, and decked Saskia in diamonds and pearls. Because Rembrandt's success as a portrait painter was enormous, the Company of Captain Cocq knew of no better man to do their group portrait...
...again be King of the Greeks." Many Greeks would prefer to see British George V's youngest son, the Duke of Kent, invited by the Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece proceeded deliberately to embarrass her Gorgeous Georgios as much as she could by causing the following to be inserted among ordinary court notices...
...Baldwin is a first cousin of Rudyard Kipling. At the poet's house he met his invaluable Wife Lucy. Together they fear God to the point of never reading Sunday papers. From the Prime Minister's lips once fell the priceless phrase, possible only in England: "Having talked with people who read the newspapers on the Sabbath, I am of the opinion...
...Strawbridges who, as sons of the founders, own most of the stock, carry on family traditions. Morris Lewis Clothier is chairman of the board, a benefactor of the Quaker colleges Swarthmore and Haverford. His brother, Isaac H. Clothier, vice president, is famed as a sportsman and horse fancier. (Their cousin, Robert C. Clothier, who did not go into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director, retired from active business some years ago as did jovial, sandy-haired Frederic...
...shares of Vickers stock bringing me dividends of 7½ shillings a year. I thought I had sold all my Vickers holdings years ago." Star accusation of the session was made when Harry Pollitt, testifying on behalf of the British Communist Party, charged that George V's own cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, held 5,000 5% preference shares of Vickers...