Word: kins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis and Manhattan is a lawyer, writer, globetrotter, Princeton graduate (1868). He is kin of the late famed Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. His father, Winslow S. Pierce, was a Comptroller of California. His law partners included the late Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and the late U. S. Senator David Turpie of Indiana. Among his neighbors was Benjamin Harrison. Among his friends were Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson...
Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
Some days previously, without a word even to their kin, the three had flown to Ireland from Berlin's great centre of aeronautics, Tempelhof. Thermos bottles filled with coffee and a loaded revolver formed their only baggage. . . . "We land on Mitchell Field or heaven...
...most delightful comedy of the season. It has all that a regulation French comedy should have--except dullness. The strange behavior of a Pekinese dog, and the appearance of the conscientious secretary in a suit of sunset pajamas provided just that touch of nature that makes the whole world kin...
...Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...