Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame Sun, who is an elder sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek, "withdrew" from politics in 1927 as a gesture of solidarity with the Communists in their break with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. She spent two years in Moscow, then returned to Nationalist China. She remained frankly hostile to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, dabbled in welfare work, gathered a circle of international left-wingers around her. When the Communists took over Shanghai, she fell in with their plans for Sino-Soviet friendship...
While her husband's status was still indefinite, Ruth maintained a dignified silence. Explained one elder tribal statesman who had paid a call: "The queen will not speak to us yet. We are waiting for her command. But word has come to us that she is delighted with her new country...
...tradition. Highlight of the picture is Miss Evans, Sam Goldwyn's latest personal find, whose natural, unadorned charm gives an appealing homespun finish to the slick production. To back her up, Goldwyn also contributed the talents of some distinguished veterans, notably Raymond Massey and Aline MacMahon as the elder McCoys, and Charles Bickford and Hope Emerson as Anse and Levisa Hatfield. Their performances, together with that of Miss Evans, give the picture a sober solidity which, in the end, carries more genuine dramatic punch than its brawling romanticism...
...natural that Herbert Clark Hoover's 75th birthday last week should become something of an occasion. A controversial figure, Herbert Hoover, for many U.S. citizens, was still the symbol of inaction in a great national emergency and thus a symbol of the first Depression. For many others, the elder statesman who, in his 703 had labored long to reorganize sprawling U.S. Government departments, was a living expression of such old-fashioned virtues as simplicity, sanity and thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys' clubs and European foreign offices poured in to his old home...
...disposing of his enemies without leaving awkward evidence around that historians have never been able to agree on the subtler details of his career. Did he bully and terrify his own father half to death? Was he guilty of incest with his beautiful sister Lucrezia? Did he murder his elder brother? Did he really earn the title one historian gave him: "Prince of Magnificent Treasons...