Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point of interest was the old fort over the harbor. President Roosevelt could claim no direct connection with it by kin, but he recalled that when the British tried to take it in 1741, Lawrence Washington, brother of the first President, was on the expedition. President Herrera's interest in the place was chiefly occasioned by the fact that during one of Colombia's revolutions he had spent some unpleasant hours...
...forbidden to give out any information," they ordered. "Here are two urns. They contain the ashes." Fearfully the von Schleicher kin buried the urns in a grave over which they dared not place the smallest cross or mark...
...related to Producer Delano is Chile's present Minister to Washington, Don Emilio Edwards. Not long ago the President gave him a book about the Chilean adventures of a Delano to be presented to Santiago's University. At Seville in 1929 Fourth Cousin Jorge, who is closer kin to the 32nd President of the U. S. than the 32nd President was to the 26th President, won the Ibero-American Cinema Grand Prix with his silent Chilean film, The Street of Dreams...
...year George Washington made peace with George III a young Hartford, Conn.† lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold...
Early one morning in Denver last week, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., Manufacturer Edward Gowan Budd (no kin), many a Burlington and Budd technician, 20 newshawks and one burro boarded Burlington's silvery new high-speed Diesel-powered train. A full third of the way across the continent in Chicago that day, A Century of Progress was opening for its second year. Clackety-clack-streamlined, shovel-nosed Zephyr slid out of the Denver yards at 6.05 a. m. While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while...