Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven hundred had been signed with the names of employes of York Street Railway Co. and their next of kin...
...tribe. Hence politeness and affability are at a premium. Among some American Indians it is not customary to refuse any gift asked for by a guest, lest his displeasure work some ill. When the Fiji Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head of the family implores his kin to have no quarrels, which might put a curse on the net and drive the turtles away. The ba-Ila of Africa are certain that if a person is discontented with his portion of eland meat but does not speak out, his kin will suffer from goitre and wens...
...Kansas City, saying, "Mother-in-law jokes annoy me; I like all my in-laws," Dr. Thomas Richmond took all his 26 kin by marriage on a two-week holiday trip to Colorado, all expenses paid, in an 18-passenger bus. two automobiles and a truck...
...melodramatic novels of the new South. But the South that Stark Young has described in River House, So Red the Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas in U. S. letters, a gracious, rainless land in which the people all seem to be kin, where liquor and food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers...
Most remarkable feature of Crow society was its system of clans or families. Children of a family all took their mother's clan name, and the clan included those related by blood on the mother's side as well as others merely considered kin. A man could never belong to the same clan as his children, since normal marriages could take place only between different clans. From Shot-in-the-Arm, Ethnologist Lowie learned that clans provided groupings for competitive entertainment, heard about war games between the Whistling Waters and Greasy Mouths. Clansman fought for clansman, avenged...