Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victor's sister Florence, aged 16, and young brother Sylvan, were prevailed upon by the photographer of a Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, to pose, in bellicose attitude, Florence wearing boxing gloves. Young Silverman's father said: "Somebody had to lick the President's son, I guess. I'm pleased to have the honor to be the father of the boy who did it,, but other boys in the United States could do the same." A promoter in Manhattan offered young Silverman $5,000 for three matches in Manhattan. Two days later, one William Hughes of Waterbury, Conn., drubbed Silverman...
...Douglas Robinson, otherwise Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of the late President and mother of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has long been an energetic woman in public life.. Recently she suffered a hemorrhage of the eye which almost blinded her. Last week, none the less, she continued her public speaking until ready to enter Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore for treatment...
...reverently prepared to receive a new occupant, the former Prince Pracha Tipok, brother of the late King Rama IV, who died without leaving a male heir (TIME, Dec. 7), after abolishing the royal harem and breaking the ancient Siamese tradition that the King should marry one of his sisters or at least a half-sister...
...Benet is a poet, hotly amorous of all words, ideas and images that appeal to the senses with clarity and elegance. He writes a rich historical tale in prose of the same genre as that which his austere sister-in-law, Elinor Wylie, put into her finespun web of intellectual silicon, The Venetian Glass Nephew...
...Whose sister looked like Venus...