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COUSIN, domest. rel. Cousins are kindred who are the issue of two brothers or two sisters, or of a brother and a sister. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called paternal cousins; maternal cousins are those who are descended from the brothers or sisters of the mother. Vide 2 Bro. C. C. 125; 1 Sim. & Stu. 301; 3 Russ. C. C. 140; 9 Sim. R. 386, 457. |
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In truth, the Willkie Clubs that had sprouted shortly before the convention and that directed the continuous avalanche of telegrams and telephone calls to convention delegates, were the creation of Oren Root, grandnephew of the famous senator and Secretary of War Elihu Root. The grandnephew of a Rockettes' choreographer, the boy nicknamed ``Good-time Charlie'' first danced through the living room of his Northridge home. Cusick's brothers, Dennis and James, and his grandnephew, Albert, have also received attention from academic scholars of late, though to what extent this attention reflects a direct impact on Iroquois communities as opposed to an indirect impact through influencing non-Iroquois understandings of these communities is not clear. |
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