Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese soil after bombing Tokyo, had seen the populace running toward him, had waved and shouted the only Chinese word he knew: "Mei-kuo, Mei-kuo"-America, America (literally, said Madame Chiang, "beautiful country"). "Our people laughed and almost hugged him and greeted him like a long-lost brother...
...goals by Billy Harding and Mare Beebe before seven minutes were up. The Varsity played good hockey, but two slips in the short space of six seconds enabled the Cadets to pull up to a tie in the eighteenth minute, when Frenchy Cyr and Hall Beukema pulled a brother act on two rapid tallies...
Awarded a Distinguished Service Cross in London for "extraordinary heroism" on a bombing mission over France: Major Al Key, famed endurance flyer of 1935. (He and Brother Fred flew the "Ole Miss" for a record 653 hr. 34 min.) The Major flew his Flying Fortress straight at two enemy fighters, completed his mission, returned safely with a cannon-blasted ship...
Died. Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini, 68, financier, pioneer backer of the cinema; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A physician, he began banking in 1908. His brother Amadeo founded the Bank of America; Attilio founded the East River National Bank in Manhattan, in the 1900s made loans to the nickelodeons, later gambled a fortune on The Kid, and-much later-backed Snow White...
...Henry V, he showed a king who knew "the hollowness of . . . ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before the deceased husband was cold in his grave. And when Macbeth murders his saintly relative, King Duncan, the outrage is unparalleled...