Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army again, but in those days there was competition, and Cervantes' crippled hand made him ineligible. While he was looking around for something to do he acquired a mistress and fathered a daughter; later with great difficulty (for he was no catch) he made a respectable marriage. A kinsman of his wife's, one Alonso Quijada, had been so disagreeably opposed to the marriage that Cervantes made a mental note of him. When he began Don Quixote it was with the intention of caricaturing this country squire. Foiled in his attempts at a more glorious career, Cervantes turned to letters...
Only the lenses and film were imported by Cousin Jorge. Chilean mechanics made the cameras and sound recording apparatus. The naval attache of the U. S. Embassy, eager to help the President's kinsman, acted as his casting director. For heroine he cast Chile's leading radio singer, Miss Hilda Sour...
Chief Ineleu felt that he was ready to die but Chilean law commands that the dead be buried in authorized municipal cemeteries. By a kinsman he sent a message to Chile's blue-eyed President Arturo Alessandri. Spoke he with grave dignity: "I am the last of the Mapuche warrior chiefs and I have served you well. It is not right that my aged bones should be laid to rest among Christians. They belong in the place called Auquell near Cunco in the province of Cautin...
...this abrupt move Dr. Schacht brought a sizeable section of Berlin finance into the Biggest Business phalanx lined up behind Handsome Adolf by Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (TIME. Nov. 28). Also in Berlin, actively supporting the Hitler cause last week, was a close kinsman of British King-Emperor George V, none other than Duke Karl Eduard von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was sent around the country shouting "Maverick!" at his distant kinsman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that year's Democratic vice presidential nominee. This year, with Theodore Jr. half way around the world in the Philippines, official family disclaimers have been left to the widow and other children of T. R. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. appeared as the White House guest of honor during President Hoover's acceptance speech. Last week Alice Roosevelt Longworth entered her political disavowal of "Cousin Frank." Beginning her reminiscences in the current Ladies' Home (in which Baltimore Sun's Frank...