Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burning issue was bingo-which was banned because of a supreme court decision, and despite vast public outrage, two months ago. To stand the ghost of a chance in the fall, both candidates had to rise up and speak out not only against corruption, but for bingo, and its cousin skilo, too. for that matter...
...second of Isaac and Emma Hoover Culp's seven children. Her mother named her Oveta (an Indian word for forget) after a character in a romantic novel, and because it rhymed so pleasantly with Juanita, the name of the first Culp daughter. Mother Culp is a remote cousin of Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover; at 72, she still leads an active life in Killeen, fishing, gardening, and driving her own Buick. Ike Culp was a rawboned, fiery-tempered lawyer, a Baptist, a Prohibitionist, a politician and a lover of horses. As a skinny kid, Oveta became...
...country watching the Olympic horse trials. A final note to the birthday week was gleaned by the London Daily Express from a French genealogical book and confirmed by a member of the College of Arms: on her mother's side, the Queen is a second cousin, seven times removed, to George Washington; and a fifth cousin, five times removed, to General Robert E. Lee. The common ancestor was a Colonel Augustine Warner, who came to Virginia...
...through as something called Lady Dedlock's Secret, though even the book's main plot gets misted over, besides being by now almost too stagy for the stage. And though the drastic cutting at times has its points-it largely silences sweet, virtuous-Esther Summerson, that English cousin of Elsie Dinsmore-it far oftener has its penalties. All but vanished are the things that really make Bleak House notable-its satire on the Court of Chancery, its vast, varied, odd-lighted picture of London. An imposing novel and a great portrait gallery have become an agreeable scrapbook...
Bach: Suites Nos. 4 & 5 (Lillian Fuchs viola; Decca). A rare chance to hear the darkling tones of the violin's big cousin played at its best. Violist Fuchs gives the unaccompanied works as much verve as if she were supported by a full symphony...