Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court in Loerrach, Germany slapped a $140,610 fine on Prince Hans von Liechtenstein, 40, cousin of little Liechtenstein's sovereign, Prince Francis Joseph II, for evading customs. The prince's defense: the luggage he carried belonged to a friend; how was he to know it contained 13,270 Swiss watches...
...years Italian police sought to discover who had sent Gualtierotti a pair of boots with nitroglycerin concealed in the hollowed-out heels. Last week police had their murderer-Gualtierotti's cousin Pier Luigi Tamburlani. Tamburlani confessed after a Rome bootmaker, interviewed by police about another case, recalled making a pair of hollow-heeled boots for Tamburlani in late 1936. Tamburlani told the bootmaker that the heels had to be hollow because the boots were intended for an official who needed a hiding place for secret documents...
Kasperle's new model should be his Russian cousin Petrushka. The Bolsheviks first banished Petrushka from the Russian puppet stage, as "an outdated anarchist figure." After the building of the Soviet state, Obraslov said, Puppet Petrushka was revived "and given significant tasks." German puppeteers, however, must be careful not to turn the converted Kasperle into a Communist Party functionary. Warned Obraslov: "It would do harm not only to party functionaries but to the personality of Kasperle himself...
...Annecy in the French Alps some 20 years ago on a dare. Since those days, it has grown up on the lakes, rivers and bays of the U.S. into a lusty-sized sport-although it still has a long way to go before it threatens its hilly, cold-weather cousin in popularity...
...Boston papers that his cousin, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt '80, was in town and called to ask him when he could see him. TR said right after the guest lecture he was going to give in Government 1 the next morning in Sanders. FDR got an announcement of the lecture into the CRIMSON, and the hall was so crowded that Professor Lowell, the head of the course and the future president of the University, called the CRIMSON to ask how the paper got its unauthorized information...