Word: elders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into war with Germany. Cried President Wenceslao Braz to the Brazilian Congress: "With our elder brother the United States at war, it is impossible for Brazil to remain neutral...
...application of such treatment everything depends on the skill of the bacteriologist who examines the patient's blood and determines the nature of the injections. Therefore, British interest has focused sharply on Dr. L. E. H. Whiteby, the brilliant young bacteriologist who was called in by the elder royal physicians Baron Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary, and Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary (TIME, Dec. 3). Dr. Whiteby, with amazing speed, in 24 hours produced an autogenous vaccine from infected material taken from His Majesty. That vaccine was injected into the royal blood stream and directly combatted the pneumococcic...
...noted that she is the mother of one. Mothers with good eyesight were sorry that hers is poor. Mothers who have kept the love of their husbands sympathized with the winner because she has been deserted, many times deceived and is now divorced. Mothers who have never had one elder brother banished from his native land, and another killed by a monkey bite recalled that the Gold Medal Mother has endured these blows of Fate...
Princess Helen's eyesight is happily improving under the care of specialists. Her elder brother, the late King Alexander of Greece, died of a monkey bite. Her eldest brother, George II of Greece, lives in cheerful banishment from his onetime kingdom, in England. Finally Princess Helen's divorced husband is M. Carol Caramain, the abdicated onetime Crown Prince of Rumania. Had he only been a faithful, proper husband the "Best Mother" would be today no princess but Queen of Rumania. Perhaps the enormity of that privation, which she has cheerfully borne, entitles Princess Helen to her big gold...
Inevitably the life of George V was poignantly recalled by his subjects in the sad waiting hours. He was a second son, a "sailor Prince," and only the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, placed him in succession to the throne. While stationed at Malta, as a young midshipman, he was on terms of blameless intimacy with Mary Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great...