Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon Sims's Brother Gordon turned up to talk it over. Out ran Grandma LeMaster & kin. Gordon Sims's father heard his son yell, got there to find him knifed and bleeding to death on the ground. As the elder Sims bent over his son's body he was stabbed. He seized a .22 rifle and blazed away, pointblank. Mrs. LeMaster's son-in-law fell wounded. Somehow the daughter was stabbed in the breast. When the officers came, they arrested Mrs. LeMaster for the murder of Gordon Sims...
...Monster referred to was the dire denizen of Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...
Edwin Seymour Smith, 45, no kin to Donald Wakefield, has an even more extensive Labor background. After Harvard and a stretch of reporting for the Springfield Republican and Hartford Times, he became employment manager of Boston's famed Filene Department Store and personal assistant to Board Chairman Abraham Lincoln Filene. In 1931 he was appointed Massachusetts' Commissioner of Labor & Industries, left that job to join the old NRA Labor Board. Ruddy-faced, blue-eyed, a snappy dresser given to loud neckties, he reads omnivorously, has written several economic treatises, relaxes week ends on his farm in Loudoun County...
...kin to the pale British imitation of TIME named Cavalcade was last week's American Cavalcade, edited by Thomas Bertram Costain, 51, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1920 to 1934. Handsome, well-printed on slick paper, illustrated with color, filled with stories, articles and poems by Rupert Hughes, Lucian Cary, Leonard Nason, Lois Montross, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Hazlett Upson, Valentine Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Wallace Irwin, Jack Dempsey, Rian James, Gilbert Seldes, American Cavalcade looks the way a good issue of the Saturday Evening Post might look if waste wordage were squeezed out, advertising omitted...
...kin of the company's founders or of anyone else in the cloak & suit trade, President Cresap traces his line back to Maryland in 1710 and thence to Yorkshire, England. He is ashamed of one of his doughty ancestors who was tried for "inhuman activities" in the form of scalping an Indian...