Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Michael Michaelovitch Romanov. 68, Grand Duke of Russia, cousin of Nicholas II, son of the late great Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevitch (1832-1909); in London, where his daughter Nadejda is the smart Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince George Mountbatten, potent kinsman of George V. Once used to an income of five million dollars. Grand Duke Michael had recently been employed in the British civil service at a salary...
...Gastonia was named for William Gaston (1788-1844)-Princeton graduate (1796), member of the 13th and 14th Congresses from North Carolina, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...
...present Alexander Karageorgevitch is no kinsman of the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch. For a century past the Karageorgevitches and the Obrenovitches have been snatching from each other the throne. On the night of the murder, the Dictator-King of today was a mere student prince in St. Petersburg, and shortly after ward a page to his Tsaric majesty Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Presumably he did not know that Lieutenant Petar Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however...
...fortnight from the Turkish Aviation League a medal, with instructions to take it home and give it to her son, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Medal in luggage, she headed for the U. S. Colonel Thomas Edward ("Revolt in the Desert") Lawrence, Great Britain's most celebrated spy, reputed kinsman of George Bernard Shaw, arrived at Plymouth, England, last week from India, having traveled third class under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government parried questions as to whether Colonel Lawrence had fomented the revolt against King Amanullah of Afghanistan (TIME, Jan. 28). Admissions that...
Florid, big-boned Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy, kinsman of Europe's late Sleeping Car Tycoon Baron Dalziel of Wooler (TIME, April 30), has now said: "I have long ago given up trying to get English people to pronounce 'Dalziel' correctly. . . . The late Lord Dalziel also accustomed himself to let the wrong pronunciation pass uncorrected. . . . He ceased to maintain the tradition that 'Dalziel' should be pronounced...