Word: kinswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entering politics is that after the War he felt that every able man should put his best abilities at the disposal of King & Country for Reconstruction. Said he in 1920: "It looks as if some kind of politics was going to be my duty." Lady Tweedsmuir, a moneyed kinswoman of the richest Duke (Westminster), burrows tirelessly in libraries, relieving her husband of much work, ever since he has been too busy himself to dig up details for his historical biographies and romances...
...fall in love at once. Mary marries Darnley for mistaken policy, sends Bothwell away. Darnley wrecks himself and Mary by playing in with the Lords, knifes Mary's secretary Rizzio on suspicion of adultery, thus unwittingly giving a spurious confirmation to the lie Elizabeth has spread about her kinswoman. The Lords then murder Darnley, shift the blame to Bothwell when he marries Mary. They defeat Mary and Bothwell in battle. Mary escapes from their jail into Elizabeth's jail and her tragedy waits only on the headsman's sword. Author Anderson entirely whitewashes Mary and Bothwell...
...woman when that burly black brute attacked her and why not turn back the "March of Time" a few years and dramatize the scene of the brutal attack and murder of a young woman-the mother of little children-that occurred near Durant, Okla. That little woman was a kinswoman of mine. That was one of the most fiendish crimes I have ever heard of. I can't say that I approve of the methods that are sometimes used in these lynchings, but they should be handled rough and they should be lynched. The law would only give them...
...King and the Government of Rumania have such power only where the marriage involves the Throne. Moreover Dowager Queen Marie backed her daughter, called Count Alexander "an extremely sympathetic person, especially welcome to me because of his English blood."?His mother was Mary Theresa ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West, kinswoman of the English Earl De La Warr; and Queen Marie is of course of English birth, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria...