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Clever Marina was credited in London with having something more immediate in mind last week. Beauteous as herself are her kinswomen, the two sisters of King George II of Greece. The Duchess was apparently resolved that these eligible Princesses, Irene and Catherine, shall meet bachelor King Edward on his holiday. In Athens the newsorgan Patris flatly declared that the engagement of His Majesty to one or the other of Their Royal Highnesses "will soon be announced." The Princesses were en route to the idyllic isle of Corfu where King George II was said to anticipate entertaining King Edward...
Paying less & less attention to his material condition, Rembrandt worked faster & faster. When his son died, he wore his best to the grave, a ragged, fur-lined coat daubed with paint. A year later, a puff-eyed, firm-jawed 63-year-oldster. deserted except by a few kinswomen and the neighborhood Jews, he died. His fame as a painter had long since vanished into the attics of Amsterdam, apparently forever...
...vexatious schisms in the Salvation Army seemed abruptly healed last week when Evangeline Cory Booth arrived in England to take up her duties as the Army's autocratic world general. As her ship docked Miss Booth received flowers and a letter from the two kinswomen who for years had fought her-the widow, Florence Eleanor, and the daughter, Catherine, of her late brother Bramwell. Later when 10,000 Salvationists gathered to greet their General in London's Albert Hall, not only were Niece Catherine and Sister-in-law Florence on the platform but also Commissioner Henry Mapp...
...Special Emergency War Course for Dependent Wives and Kinswomen of Soldiers in Active Service. Preliminary meeting soon to be held to determine dates and courses. College of Business Administration...
...with an old acquaintance, a distant relation, I was pleased to find that there were only a few friends and neighbors present, and that it was a simple family party. There is nothing so agreeable to a man of strong family feeling as an assembly of his kinsmen and kinswomen around a well-filled board. The intercourse between those who are bound together by the ties of friendship as well as of blood affords one of the rarest pleasures I am acquainted with...
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