Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match nor arranged marriage." Pretty, 20-year-old Princess Kazuko had begun preparing for marriage two years ago by learning to cook, sew and sweep floors in the home of one of the Emperor's former chamberlains (see cut). The imperial family soon afterward settled on bespectacled Takatsukasa, cousin of the Empress Dowager, as a likely husband, provided both youngsters were willing...
European Roman Catholics have lately been eying the prosperous establishment of U.S. Catholicism like down-at-heel gentry looking over a forgotten cousin who has struck it rich. Surveying its growth, Novelist Evelyn Waugh found it, for his English taste, a bit too Irish: "In New York on St. Patrick's Day . . . the stranger might well suppose that Catholicism was a tribal cult." Last week, U.S. Catholic readers of the Parisian daily Le Monde got a chance to see themselves through the unblinking eyes of a Frenchman...
...Like its U.S. cousin, the chickadee, Britain's tit has been taught to relish the meat of coconuts hung on a garden tree.) One Times reader, the bird-loving Countess of Cawdor, took a more ominous view of the matter. "Could it be," she mused darkly, "that it is we ourselves whose mad behavior has affected the tits...
...Biarritz, Monique first met the Da Silva cousins-tall, handsome Nano, just back from service with the French army,, an ardent cavalier who escorted her to the casinos and the dances and introduced her to his cousin, Jonsine da Silva, who promptly fell in love with...
Died. Robert E. Ringling, 52, last surviving child of the five original Ringling Bros.; of a heart ailment; in Sarasota, Fla. In 1934 Baritone Ringling gave up a mildly successful career with the Chicago Civic Opera to help head the money-losing family circus; with cousin John Ringling North, he put the big top back on a paying basis, lost out as president after an extended family quarrel and legal battle, ended as chairman of the board...