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...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...
...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...