Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keeper of the Privy Purse will have the job of investing the unborn Prince of Wales's $125,000 a year, banking the unwed Queen's $200,000, paying off to the King's 150 needy kin their minimum allowances of some $125 a week, meeting household salaries, expenses, repairs...
...confused with Austrian Author Stefan Zweig, no kin (Conflicts, Amok, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles...
...truant officer busily seizes the occasion for renewed efforts to send Star to an asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...
NOAH WEBSTER: SCHOOLMASTER TO AMERICA-Harry R. Warfel-Macmillan ($3.50). Though Webster and dictionary are synonymous in the U. S., Noah Webster's posthumous fame is cloudy. He is often confused with Daniel Webster (no kin), and his multitudinous activities have faded from popular memory. Last week, in a full-length biography of Noah Webster, the first in 50 years, Author Warfel dusted the cobwebs off this early Yankee, showed him as a genuine and valuable antique...
Died. Harry E. Wilken Sr., 63, long-time whiskey distiller, concocter of Wilken Family Blended Whiskey (TIME, Aug. 25), which Schenley Distillers Corp. promoted by homey advertisements showing Wilken's kin (Sons Harry Jr. & William. Son-in-law Tom) draped around a whiskey keg, smacking their lips, proclaiming to each other: "It's our family whiskey. Neighbor and neighbor-it's your price"; of a heart ailment; in Tarentum...