Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gridiron experience, however, had given him resource in crises, and this particular resource he found in his desk drawer. It was an "A" theme in English A, submitted by his brother some years before. In its earliest known history it had been handed in by a long graduated cousin and had also received...
...right that Henry Adams should hear of Auguste Comte; it did not care to explore the moral results of the industrial revolution. Nor does it care to discuss them now, with the result that most American undergraduates still think of Socialism as a scholastic crotchet that is first cousin to free love and atheism. Mr. Hoover, one remembers, thought that all good things should drop from above. They did not in the economic structure, and they will not in the academic. All power to the National Student League or to any other undergraduate organization which can see its own hand...
Died, James Arnold Lowell. 64, Federal district judge at Boston, cousin of Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell; of pneumonia following erysipelas; at his home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground...
Engaged. Irene Helen Robbins, 19, only daughter of U. S. Minister to Canada Warren Delano Robbins (first cousin of President Roosevelt); and Alexander Cochrane Forbes, Harvard graduate...
Engaged. Barbara Balfe, 19, Manhattan socialite, first cousin of Veronica Balfe (see below); and Jack Rohe Howard, 23, newspaperman, only son of Publisher Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard...