Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of sketches dealing largely with Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas scenes and characters, Feliciana offers few surprises to readers of So Red the Rose. Sitting in an old plantation house, the author broods over the career of a dead kinsman, Cousin Micajah, who loved the girl his brother loved and joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire...
...these political duels produced little gore last week, Hungarian connoisseurs of sabre work were edified by one duel of pure animal rage. Heavy cavalry sabres at dawn were wanted by Count Balint Szechenyi, kinsman of Hungary's Minister at London, Count Laszlo Szechenyi who is husband to Gladys Vanderbilt. Count Balint Szechenyi had heard something his wife's first husband, a Jewish businessman named Victor Stein, had said about her. Victor Stein was mad too. On the field of honor the two hurled themselves at one another three times. Stein severely battered the Count's head...
...Representative Hamlin's kinsman, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine who became Lincoln's first Vice President, declared on entering the Senate: "I shall be a working rather than a talking member...
...Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until she and Mrs. Stoll were on their way back to Louisville in company of a preacher-kinsman. By that time, Kidnapper Robinson with the $50,000 had made his getaway, was being pursued all over the southeast...
Though the Duchess rarely goes out in the evening, her alibis are not so good as they might be. A policeman, perspiring with embarrassment, is about to take her into custody when her intrepid kinsman, a V. C., risks a fate worse than death to prove her innocence. Author Arlen eventually saves his heroine's reputation, without materially damaging...