Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buzzing was caused by the fact that Queen Elizabeth II had abruptly canceled her plan to attend the wedding of her cousin, chunky, auto-racing Gerald Lascelles, 28 (never a royal favorite), to a stage-struck blonde, Angela Estree Lyssod Dowding, 33, daughter of a divorced corset manufacturer...
Seldom, if at all, is the veracity and integrity of Robert A. Taft ever questioned, yet after reading of the Taft Texas steamroller [TIME, June 9], I begin to have my doubts. True enough, Taft himself was not there to help, but his cousin and campaign manager, David Ingalls, was, as well as another man high in the Taft organization, Carroll Reece. These men and the Texas Taftmen will of course be in Taft's favor in the event of his nomination and election. All the time we hear Taft harping on Democratic corruption, and yet by their actions...
...three-man regency council to govern Jordan. The regency, Abul Huda said, would rule until Talal could return to his throne or until young Crown Prince Hussein becomes 18 next May. Hussein is now in school at Harrow (Churchill's alma mater) along with his cousin, King Feisal of Iraq...
...deal seemed as good as signed. Washington's American Security & Trust Co., trustee for the Enquirer ever since Owner John R. McLean died in 1916, was glad to sell at the top of the newspaper market. For his part, Times-Star Publisher Hulbert Taft, 74-year-old cousin of Senator Bob Taft (who owns a 5% interest in the paper), knew he was getting a good buy. The Enquirer is not only Cincinnati's biggest and most prosperous daily (circ. 185,283); it is also the city's only morning and Sunday paper. But the Tafts...
...Universalists (membership 65,000) seemed to be coming along slowly but surely. So far, delegates heard, 47 Unitarian and 22 Universalist congregations have voted on the plan, have ratified it in every case-most often unanimously. Frederick May Eliot, longtime president of the Unitarian Association (and a cousin of Poet T. S. Eliot), predicted defections" from orthodox Protestant churches "on a great scale." If Unitarians and Universalists could welcome the defectors to a United Liberal Church, "our days of living in a corner would be over...