Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damaging evidence for the defense was the testimony of Lammot du Font's cousin and brother-in-law, Francis I. du Pont, stockholder and director of Missouri-Kansas. Several "victims" of the Missouri-Kansas crash testified that they had bought the stock because salesmen told them the du Pont companies were backing Missouri-Kansas. Director du Pont emphatically declared that his dealings with Missouri-Kansas were entirely personal, that no oth er member of the family and no du Pont company was interested. There, said the prosecutor. Was that not clear proof that Frank Parish's salesmen...
...autobiographical likenesses in Hervey, the book's central character, may catch suggestions of other actual people (notably Novelist John Boynton Priestley). Love in Winter carries on the careers of the characters introduced in Company Parade, but the central narrative tells of Hervey's love affair with her cousin. Nicholas Roxby. Both are married-Hervey to a no-account weakling who has failed her again & again, is now idling at Oxford; Nicholas to a spoiled wife from whom he is separated. Like many of his generation. Nicholas has been nearly used up by the War; Hervey is much...
After a turn at making gunpowder canisters during the War, Nephew Richard organized U. S. Foil Co. to supply tin foil to the tobacco industry, with his family's orders as a logical backlog. By the time Libby Holman married his first cousin, Nephew Richard had branched into thermostats and Eskimo Pies and Reynolds Metals had succeeded to the business of U. S. Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo...
...first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries and farm products, mostly in exchange for whiskey. Turning around, he sold the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." For that commerce Quakers expelled him from their meeting but later took him back. He fell in love with a cousin. But her father, fearing effects of consanguinity, forbade the marriage. Neither sweetheart ever married...
...shrewdly with his hat over his eyes and a cigar in his mouth, Korda tactfully taught her how to act. She played the part of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife. At Barbara Hutton's wedding in Paris she met Wool worth Donahue, rich Hutton cousin. Last summer they were reported engaged. She arrived in the U. S. six months ago for the purpose of marrying him. But Mrs. Donahue Sr. does not like actresses. Her engagement broken, Wendy Barrie followed Henry VIII's other wives (Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Elsa Lanchester and Everly Gregg...