Word: cousinly
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...Just for kicks?' [a cousin asks] 'Well, kicks and,' he said more soberly. 'A little principle got mixed up in it somewhere--I tried to stop it, but it did. You see, I know the wicked flourish and all that; what kills me is the really crummy grade of wicked who flourish around here. This gang of shanty clowns has been playing the city like a slot machine for years. You can't sit still for that forever, can you? It's humiliating. It's like being goosed by the garbage man every...
...casual observer, the Earl of Harewood would seem a very proper lord. A first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, he stands 18th in succession to the British throne, has an excellent wartime record (Grenadier Guards), an elegant estate at Leeds, a lively interest in music, and is chairman of some very prestigious committees. The late Queen Mary, King George VI and Queen Mother Elizabeth all attended his 1949 wedding to talented Pianist Maria Stein, who subsequently bore him three sons...
...which leaves Queen Elizabeth and her cousin in an embarrassing position. As temporal head of the Church of England, the Queen can hardly be expected to give her happy consent to the marriage of a divorced earl and a woman who is her self a divorcee. Happily, however, the question may not be put to her. There is another way out: the earl and his lady may marry without royal consent if he first informs the Privy Council of his intentions, then waits one year. Or the earl may follow the example of George III's own sons, marry...
Truman Capote narrates his adaptation of A Christmas Memory, an autobiographical tale of a lonely old woman and a small boy who stand together against the sensible world of grownups, which Capote wrote for Mademoiselle in 1956. With Geraldine Page as a distant spinster cousin and Donnie Melvin as "Buddy...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 51, grandson of Dime Store Magnate F. W. Woolworth and first cousin of Heiress Barbara Hutton, a lifelong bachelor who was the stereotype of the high-living, chorine-chasing playboy of the 1930s, then settled down to become a charity fund raiser and enough of an arts patron to donate $100,000 to the new Metropolitan Opera House; of visceral congestion; in Manhattan...