Word: kins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gear than a nose-that was balaeniceps rex, the shoebill stork, who arrived in Manhattan last week, cabined in the officers' quarters of his steamer, from Lake No, near Khartoum, Upper Egypt. He was one of five specimens that collectors have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo. This fifth one, four feet high, maltese grey, was to tour U.S. zoos, guided by Collector George H. Bistany, who had braved malaria and homesickness to wait, near a broad spreading cactus bush in a Nile...
...whose intensity raised him above his fellows to the position and estate demanded by an acquisitive nature. If the house is still owned by relations of the builder, you may not see in them many traces of the old blood. But should you find the builder's kin elsewhere, and fallen on hard days, mark how often some intensity of the old blood will have been its own undoing...
LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell-John Day ($2). The wine of a girl's life pressed out in California...
LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell Dobie-The John Day Co ($2). Adrienne was a child of love, conceived in lyric sin. Her mother was Elizabeth Sinclair of the amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like...
Later, when the body of "Tunney" (Manuel Kin, aged 12) was being removed, "Dempsey" (Carl Weinstein, aged 10) sobbed: "I didn't mean...