Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greene. A prominent figure at book auctions, exhibitions and literary cocktail parties, Librarian Greene is far from inaccessible, but has managed to keep her early history to herself. It is of record, however, that she is of Portuguese-Virginia ancestry, was discovered at Princeton by Mr. Morgan's Cousin Junius when the Morgan Library was building, and has been a fixture in the Morgan household ever since. Librarians all over the world respect her knowledge. Working nervously on the present exhibition since June, when the last wet sponge and special detective was in place last week Librarian Greene took...
Asked at a Washington party. "Why haven't we heard more from you?'', President Roosevelt's Republican fifth cousin Alice Roosevelt Longworth replied. "I am trying terribly hard to be impartial and malevolent at the same time...
...Bloody Richard III dies on Bosworth Field crying: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Henry Tudor, distant cousin of the last Lancastrian, King Henry VI, returns from exile, wins on Bosworth Field and marries Elizabeth, sister of the murdered York princes. Thus Henry Tudor merges the Houses of York and Lancaster, ends the Wars of the Roses, establishes his own House of Tudor. Many of his subjects believe that the York princes are still alive, that they somehow escaped from Richard Ill's confinement. But they do not reappear on the English scene. A century later...
...whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago heirs have long been dissatisfied with the way their first cousin, Robert II, has run the ranch. Most serious of the many charges astute Mr. Fisher has brought are: 1) The trustees have turned the management of the ranch entirely over to Robert II instead of running it themselves as directed by Henrietta Kind's will...
...purchasing syndicate and the trading syndicate. His attorney urged that his client's memory was "not of the best." Mr. Cutten had directed the market operations, which sold all 1,130,000 shares in seven months at an average profit of nearly $11 a share, from Chicago. His cousin Ruloff Cutten, a floor member of E. F. Hutton & Co., had executed his orders. Whenever Mr. Cutten felt vague on a point he would refer to "my cousin Ruloff." Cousin Ruloff, a onetime actor whom Speculator Cutten took off the stage and taught the lore of the market, was summoned...