Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the loan would be "largely a bail-out of investors and certain creditors." Furthermore, out of RFC's five directors, the loan had been approved by a mere two-to-one vote (a fourth director was absent, while RFChairman Harley Hise abstained from voting because a distant cousin is married to a Texmass official...
...soon realized he was no prodigy-"I only made a lot of noise." Later, as a student at the University of Munich, he tried his hand at composing the usual sonatas and fugues, soon found "I was not a Beethoven." But young Alfred, who had a distant, science-minded cousin named Albert Einstein, made music his career anyway...
...Buttercup. To make up for this faulty casting she gives the part an interpretation that is spirited and novel, if incorrect. Robert Peters as Captain Corcoran, Roger Murphy as Dick Deadeye, and David Shapiro as Sir Joseph Porter, and all far better than average amateur performers. Nancy Ryan's Cousin Hebe is one of the finest that I have ever seen...
...East twang. He had been ten years a state legislator and two years lieutenant governor. But more than his face and a good record gave him a good chance of getting the nomination. There was his name: Coolidge, Arthur W. Candidate Coolidge, white-haired and 68, is a fourth cousin of Calvin, but he is not quite so silent, and his collars are not quite so stiffly starched. Cousin Arthur promised to give Massachusetts some "Coolidge economy," if elected...
...cousin, Fritz von der Schulenburg, was hanged by the Nazis for his part in the unsuccessful 1944 coup against Hitler, and an uncle, Friedrich, prewar ambassador to Moscow, was shot...