Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oddly we were not introduced by name; we just filed along, shook hands with Mrs. Roosevelt, her brother and her niece . . . and passed along a corridor with two Negroes serving punch (nonalcoholic, I think) in the big ballroom. The first eight feet of the ballroom was crammed with the stag line of surplus young men. These young men varied enormously. Mass observation showed that only one in 20 wore hair lotion and that about one in ten had his hair cropped like a convict. The editor of the Tailor and Cutter would have burst into tears over...
...group of eminent Britons who frequented Cliveden, Buckinghamshire estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...situation was that stocky Dr. Gabriel Terra was not among the delegates to the Lima conference. Uruguay's welterweight strongman, who ran the country personally for seven years before turning it over to be technically run by his brother-in-law six months ago, was at home in Montevideo, touting the wonders of the Italian Government, whose guest he had just been. When the Uruguayan stooges at Lima got through renouncing the principle of trading with the dictatorships, Dr. Terra's Fascist friends cheerfully sprang the trade agreement they had been making for months in Rome...
...Manhattan Island. First practical application of the ornithology John learned came that fall when he ran a chicken farm as a sideline to his first job after graduation from Fordham. He was a school teacher at $10 a week in a two-pupil rural New York school where Brother Leo janitored for $5 a year. At home in the long evenings he read Blackstone and the Bard. In 1915 he left his two pupils for the Times, pieced out a cub's salary with the slightly ornithological sideline of running the Central Park swanboat concession. When he went...
...Seiberlings are a big family of little men. Frank A. Seiberling had six children; his brother Charles, four. None is over five feet, six. But what the Seiberlings lack in height, they make up in energy and enterprise...