Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel dog. When he writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns out to be a juvenile sneak & pedant. Bill Peck's gang refuses to accept him. Aunt Lily blames Bill for their antipathy. Manfully, Bill decides to run away from home, but when he does so his eccentric old friend Duffy...
...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...
...Four'' which won the international matches against England in 1909 and coached by the "Big Four's" famed Back, Devereux Milburn, the team that played for the East last week was built around its No. 3, tall, brawny, 27-year-old Winston Guest, second cousin of Britain's Winston Churchill. After last week's game young Winston Guest did not even wait for dinner before rushing to town with his bride, Helena McCann Guest, to tell the New York Young Republican Club about his three ambitions for 1934: "To marry Helena. ... To help...
Mississippi was practically bankrupt when Theodore Bilbo left the Governor's mansion in 1932 and so was he. Last year he could not raise $500 to settle a claim against his $75,000 "dream home" at Poplarville, where he grows pecans. A cousin took the place over and Democrat Bilbo was delighted to get a $6,000-a-year job in Washington clipping newspapers for AAA in an office across the hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that...
Died. Anthony Woodward Ivins, 82, ranch owner, second in command of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) to his cousin, President Heber J. Grant; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City...