Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last 20 years, mourning still meant black garments, closed doors, no music, no parties, no entertainment. This mode of life lasted for five years after the death of a spouse, parent or child; three years and six months for a grandparent, brother or sister; two years for a cousin, aunt or uncle...
...clinic, Margaret Pierce became gravely ill, was admitted to another hospital. The nurse who put her to bed was surprised to find that she carried $4,000 in cash. Within three days Margaret Pierce was dead. Soon her will was filed; except for $1,000 to a cousin, she had left everything to Memorial, but hospital officials did not expect it would amount to much. Last week, when her safe deposit box was opened, jewelry, stocks, bonds, gold and bank books showed that Margaret Pierce had repaid Memorial's kindness. She had left about $150,000 for research...
When pudgy, greying Theodore Olin Thackrey started his left-wing New York Compass 16 months ago, on the ashes of the departed Star, he seemed to be well fixed financially. He got $750,000 from 84-year-old Mrs. Emmons Elaine, daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and cousin of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, who had given away ten of her millions for various causes and charities. When & if the Compass ran through its nest egg, the chances were good that Aunt Anita would cheerfully ante up again. But last week Editor Thackrey made a sad announcement...
...Madox Ford was just such a neglected writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
Other issues dealt with included setting up a "commuter cousin's" plan to improve dorm-commuter relations, and methods of streamlining the faculty-affiliate program...