Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early crash, and any vibration caused him excruciating pain. Occasionally an aircraft company asked his advice. He still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support a wife and a flying machine...
...lesser charges were thrown out, but the court would have no truck with the nature-over-science argument. Stiffly it found that radar was only "an additional aid to navigation." Littler's sword now pointed directly at him: "Guilty." He was removed from his command, reprimanded. Said a brother officer: "Johnny's had his chips...
...late Huey's brother sounded almost as good as the Kingfish himself. What was more, Huey's 29-year-old son Russell was stumping the state for Uncle Earl, and Russell looked just like the Kingfish, right down to his curly hair, pudgy nose and slack chin. It was like old times...
Earl himself was not so much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
From Tea & Buns. The Lyons empire of edibles was starteD in 1886 by a tobacco salesman named Montague Gluckstein, who had noted the United Kingdom's lack of cheap but decent teashops. He sold his brother Isidore and brothers-in-law Alfred and Barnett Salmon on the idea of a moderate-priced catering service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons...