Word: kinsman
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...dealing with her husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen's Work in St. Louis, distant kinsman of Actor Eddie Dowling. Jesuit Dowling, once a crack baseballer, called "Puggy" by St. Louis schoolmates, worked on the Globe-Democrat before he became a priest in 1931, is today a member of Broun's Newspaper Guild...
...Kinsman of the seafaring Scotsman for whom are named an Antarctic sea and seal...
...sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom...
...tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane is not writing a simple triangle fantasy: Henry and Molly symbolize the struggle between the Poet and Domesticity...
...wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba's electric waxer to keep the parquet floors of his Madrid palace gleaming. Communist guides lead groups of peasants and proletarians about in the stately halls, lecturing as in the palaces at Leningrad and Moscow. Alba is a blood kinsman of Winston Churchill, discharges the duties of an ambassador in London, where both he and onetime King Alfonso XIII are objects of sympathy, occasionally get a friendly English cheer...