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Word: cousinly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams, a brunette witch of a first cousin named Olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old-Fashioned Abandon | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Grapes, Gifts, Girls. Last year, when Captain Thornhill, then 73, thought to marry his cousin Cecily, it was Patience the butler who did the proposing and it was Patience who stood by as best man at the wedding. Over the years, in gratitude for such devotion, Thornhill showered his butler with gifts of clothes and money, even of a nine-room house completely furnished. Out of sight of the squire, Patience lived like something of a lord himself. When the daily grind of grape-pitting at the manor was over, Patience would slip away, clad in the best, and whisk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Impatience of Patience | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Readers of Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME. Sept. 27) will be familiar with many of Author Whitman's ideas and characters; her common man is first cousin to Riesman's other-directed individual, her ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author Riesman deals at length with economic and political behavior, romantic Author Whitman deals, no less earnestly, with man's inner life, the role of the mystic and of the church, the possibility of rebirth or of what Jung calls individuation. Riesman writes as a social scientist, describing and classifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanted: Dream Man | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Married. Norodom Sihanouk, 33, saxophone-playing ex-king of Cambodia who abdicated in March in favor of his father. Prince Suramarit, after charging an international commission with interfering in Cambodian affairs; and Princess Norodom Norleak, his shy second cousin; both for the first time; secretly, in Pnompenh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Married. King Hussein of Jordan, 19; and Sherifa Dina Abdul Hamid el-Aoun, 26, lecturer in English literature at Cairo University and a distant cousin of Hussein; both for the first time in Amman, Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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