Word: kinship
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...picturing the scene?the simple Vermont farmhouse, the President's father administering the oath, the old-fashioned lamp whose rays illumined the occasion. Like later pictures of Mr. Coolidge cutting hay with a scythe, it was a demonstration of democracy in the high places, of a President's kinship with his people...
...Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest of the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free...
...canonically chosen and duly designated administrative head of the affairs temporal of our universal body and of its spiritual concerns too, in so far as they may be inseparable from kinship with the former, I am convinced it is my duty, and so should be my desire, to establish every possible point of contact with the different agencies and various phases of our legitimate Church life. It seems to me nothing could be more right and so nothing more reasonable-nothing could be more necessary and so nothing more desirable...
...America. In Alaska, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution scoured the shoreland and islands north to Point Barrow, then worked southward, following the Yukon to its mouth, in search of relics left by problematical Asiatic migrations to America. The anthropological world waited to hear if he could establish kinship between North American red Indians and identical human types visible today in northeastern Asia...
Certain amorous adumbrations add a behavioristic bond to McDougall's kinship with Benvenuto. And in a literary way, they twin across the centuries. Their kind of writing is vivid, newsy, racy without stint...