Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hurlburt appeared before the foreign affairs committee yesterday, and defended the record of his dead brother, the late minister to Peru. Ex-Secretary Blaine will be examined Monday...
...might wish to have, even though both are denied the delusive gifts of brilliancy and vivacity. We took occasion some days ago to reason with the Review upon the subject of its delusion. We only hope our words have carried conviction into the soul of our erring brother. But now in some unaccountable manner we have stirred up the solemn indignation of the Chronicle, and consequently we find ourselves confronted with a most severe and formidable lecture from our Ann Arbor friends upon the sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style...
Captain George P. Thomas of the Little Western has challenged his brother to row across the Atlantic in boats nine feet long...
...portrait of Mrs. Butterfield and her younger brother, at the respective ages of ten and six, hangs over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Butterfield is represented in low neck and short sleeves, with one hand sliding from her brother's shoulder, and the other, abnormally developed, hanging almost to the hem of her skirt. Both figures look unsteady and unhappy, as though they had been trying to see which could hold its breath longest and were both about ready to give...
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of William H. Vanderbilt, committed suicide yesterday afternoon in New York by shooting himself through the head. The motive for the act is supposed to be mental derangement, resulting from continued ill-health...