Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, heretofore a commoner with a courtesy title (because brother George was a Marquess), became a lord in his own right. George VI made him a viscount on his birthday honors list...
...remembered that Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament met and chose his brother, Prince Phumiphon (pronounced: Poomipon) Aduldet, 18, as King...
...clanked off down the field last week, Evan Hardy strode after them, noting pulling power and gas consumption, making sure they had their machines adjusted properly. He showed that a rubber-tired machine was more economical, needed only four h.p. hours per acre against five for its steel-wheeled brother. He discussed the alignment of wheels so that they do not compete with each other, the best speed to reduce slippage of discs, the most economical depth of tillage. Said he: "It's the top four inches you're interested in. . . . It may give...
...Smith Brothers are pillars of their community; they run the finest gambling joint in Reno, Nev. Harold's Club (named for the older brother) earns more than a million silver dollars every year, making it the nation's biggest. The Smith boys are always ready to do something nice for people. They donated Reno's Catholic nursery, gave $5,000 to pay off the mortgage of the local Methodist church, spent more thousands for the Mormons, the Church of the Nazarene, the Negro Methodists. Last week the Smith Brothers, who never got through high school, were ready...
...Other Camp. Twenty miles away at an abandoned resort hotel on Greenwood Lake, Pittsburgh's 182-lb. Billy Conn looked good - in training. There were no gin rummy games in his camp any more: Billy had lost $1,800 to his brother in less than a week. Now they played quick two-handed poker games, anteing $20 bills, and raising with $205. Occasionally Billy commanded Manager Johnny Ray: "Gimme another hundred." Said Manager Ray: "We're just a bunch of plain, ordinary bums having a good time...