Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...risk we must take if we are to sort out these people." The scrutiny did not require too fine a search for "reason" for reclassification. Under the loose definitions of the Population Registration Act, almost any are good enough. Coloreds were being reclassified because they had a native half-cousin, or were friendly with natives...
...Then his cousin, a maiden lady, died, and left the bulk of her $230,000 estate to her elderly solicitor, one Frederick Harry Nye. Wintle brooded restlessly, concluded that Nye had somehow done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...
...throne, marched smartly and looked none the worse for the recent wear and tear of his fourth car smashup in 13 months (Kent was at the controls in three of the crashes). After graduation (and orders to duty with the Royal Scots Grays), the Duke blushingly denied that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, had ordered him henceforth to do his landborne flying only with an experienced copilot at his side. His bland explanation for his plans to abstain from driving for a while: "I have simply not got a car to drive...
Through most of his history, the American Indian has enjoyed health as good as his white cousin's, and in some ways, better. But in the last century the Indian has suffered grievously: some 350,000, of a total Indian population of 400,000, live on barren reservations in grinding poverty, existing from hand to mouth in crowded, filthy huts with animals and vermin. The scourges that the white man has been most successful in suppressing are especially deadly for the Indian, e.g., diphtheria, tuberculosis, dysentery. Any Indian born today on a reservation has a life expectancy of only...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...