Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curtius & Kin...
President Litchfield ("Litch," "P. W.," "the Old Man"-but not to his face) is a shipbuilder by heritage. Among his ancestors were George Soule, Mayflower passenger; also Alexander Standish and Sarah Alden, kin of famed Miles and famed John. His immediate forebears, notably the ship-owning and sailing Robinsons of Bath, Maine (on his mother's side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer...
...Indian girl, resenting the white woman's friendship with Gilbert, had killed her in a jealous rage; that she had been murdered by squaws who were angered at having her come among them asking personal questions. But then was found an unmailed letter from the girl to her kin in the East. She told of one Indian buck who, as white people had warned her might happen, had taken advantage of her friendly interest, tried to molest her. She wrote that she feared this Indian. Authorities started looking for him. He was, they said, a nomadic Apache from...
...kin of Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester...
...went to Harvard and upon his graduation (1904), much to the surprise of his family, took a law course at Cambridge. Even more surprised was his family when he began to practice his profession in New York. When he went into Republican ward politics in New York City, his kin threw up their hands in social horror. Later he explained: "I was possessed of a fortune but I wanted to put myself, as a matter of personal pride, in a position where I was not dependent upon the income I had inherited. I tackled politics because I concluded that...