Word: kinship
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...Tour scheme is not applicable, we cannot get away from the kinship between beards and autumn leaves First there is the matter of dryness. The pedigreed leaf is quite dry and usually somewhat curled around the edges. This curling is also a universal characteristic of beards, as is dryness. The two exceptions to the latter statement are those who follow the Old Teutonic custom of staining the beard with bits of food, and those too youthful to have the necessary manual dexterity. King Richard III was an example of this fully-haired baby, but his birth is the exception...
America's feeling of "kinship" toward Britain should not prevent this country from opposing her view, he stated...
...there has been a notable scarcity of bands and banners and other normal accouterments of major campaigns. Said one veteran Washington reporter: "Estes and the people get along so well because they demand so little of each other." But among the people there is a good-natured feeling of kinship...
...Stevenson. Though Meyner was mum as ever about romance, Helen said they have been "friends" ever since May, when the governor was keynoter of a mock Democratic Convention at Ohio's Oberlin College (prexy: Helen's . daddy, William Edwards Stevenson). Paralleling Helen's legitimate claim of kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back-pounding Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, darkest Democratic horse now visible at all, also clomped into the consanguinity act with a hoarse declaration of Stevensonian blood in his wife's veins.* Happy's claim was as undocumented as it was tenuous...
...Time for Sergeants and The Ponder Heart, or such interesting failures as Mister Johnson and The Young and Beautiful. At straight playwriting, Arthur Miller came closest to real achievement with A View from the Bridge, but he let a longing for Greek tragedy blur the play's kinship with primitivist drama...