Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Company's credit up to $7,000. Malcolmson detached Couzens to work with Ford. Couzens had just received a bonus of $500 for bringing the profits of the coal yard up to $90,000 a year. He put this with $400 he had saved, borrowed $100 from his sister and added his personal note for $1,500- with this total of $2,500 he bought 25 shares of Ford stock. As time went on and other stockholders sold out cheap, he increased his holdings to 100 times his original holdings. *Figures for production of Ford cars are as follows...
...French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp. A vast crowd of notables, who had arrived in 43 special trains, formed a long and impressive queue of mourners. Among them were Frau Ebert, two Fraulein Ebert, Ebert's only son, a brother and a sister, Chancellor Luther, Reichstag President Lobe, ex-Chancellor Marx...
...robbers actually captured 24 foreigners; but one, Miss Lucy C. Aldrich, sister-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., grew tired on the way to the mountain stronghold, lagged behind, eventually lagged so far behind that she was able to escape. By virtue of an active mind and a good memory, she was able to recover her jewelry, valued at $50,000, which she had buried in the ground immediately after the train had jumped the rails. Subsequently she drew a map showing the place where the treasure lay hid. "Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Co. was despatched...
Fanny Brawne, proves Miss Lowell, was far from the shallow, flippant, witless girl that worshipers of Keats have been pleased to style her. That she had intelligence the author infers from certain letters (never examined by any other biographer) written by Fannie Brawne to Keats' sister after his death: "Let us admit, once and for all, that Keats made a most uneasy lover. . . . It would have been small wonder if Fanny Brawne occasionally asked herself whether this exacting and excitable young man could make any woman really happy...
TIME is so good that perfection comes to be demanded! Hence this comment upon "one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick" (issue of Feb. 23, page 17). You refer to Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, widow of Henry Sidgwick, the famous English philosopher, sister of A. J. Balfour (now the Earl of Balfour), principal of Girton College, Cambridge, till 1910. She is probably the most experienced member of the Society for Psychical Research, a purely scientific organization with which she lias been intimately connected since its inception. Aside from her connections, she is, by right of her own achievement, among the most eminent of living...