Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another kinsman of the Romanovs, Duke George of Leuchtenberg, said not long ago despairingly of Mme. Tchaikovsky: "If she is not Anastasia who has returned in the flesh it is most certainly her spirit that has come back in a different body. And the worst of it is we can't find out whose body...
...Prince was born at Tokyo, in 1863, and was adopted five years later as the son and heir of his kinsman Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa, who had just relinquished the Shogunate. Soon afterward the newly-made-potent Emperor Mutsuhito appointed 5-year-old heir Tokugawa to be Governor of Shidzuoka Province, as a mark of the esteem in which the House of Tokugawa was, and still is, held by the Imperial House of Japan...
...Professor W. A. Carlyle (Kinsman of the late historian-essayist Thomas Carlyle...
...religion. He frankly owns that "there is more in the habits of formal religion than I used to think--In spite of the fact that Christ was a very silent partner in the life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep into his life. Accidental contact with D. L. Moody, "down a dark street in Shadwell on my way from a maternity case", proved...
...color. We noble Nordics are a sort of ashen-grey hue. . . . The fact that there are so many Negroes who are not colored shows how frequently colored girls have been raped by white men. "I was born where they believed he [a Negro] was better than the whites [at Kinsman, Ohio...