Word: kinsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carrara Fascist Patrol, ex-British citizen) is today's reigning marble tycoon. To his sister is married his first cousin, Carlo Andrea Fabbricotti, ex-officer of the Italian Navy, ex-officer of the Italian Army, ex-Italian Ambassador to the Romanov court of St. Petersburg. These two men, kinsmen and rivals, carry on the 500-year Fabbricotti tradition...
...Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother-Gertrude Ederle, 77-in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb...
...death: "The Emperor was affected less by the deed itself than by the fact that it was the work of members of his own family [Grand Dukes Dmitri and Yusupoff]. ' Before all Russia,' he exclaimed, ' I am filled with shame that the hands of my kinsmen are stained with the blood of a simple peasant...
...Margery Rex (the name of any young lady whom Mr. Hearst may employ to write this type of story). The narrative told how Lady Louise Mountbatten had jilted the Crown Prince of Sweden out of love for a poor painter, frustrating the ambition of King George to marry his kinsmen to people to wealth. Said Miss Margery Rex: "You mustn't think George V takes tips or percentages off the weddings of his kin to persons of means"-the point being that King George is worried about supporting poor relatives
...roundabout way came information of another important American's opinion of prohibition. In London was published a book, The Law of the Kinsmen, by Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, consisting of addresses made in this country and articles which appeared in England. The work has a preface by William Howard Taft, in which, among other things, the Chief Justice spoke of law enforcement in America, particularly with respect to prohibition...