Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gaston is a bachelor, a fact which caused his sister to remark: "Gaston will be the last of the Doumergues. He never would marry. He always said that our mother and I were enough and that my children were as his; but they don't bear the name of Doumergue, and for such a long, long time there have been Doumergues in this house...
...model and inspiration of the immortal Romney's genius who called her his "Divine Lady," to be the Lady of the Embassy at the British Legation in Naples and dazzling centre of its brilliance, to be the intimate of the intriguing and lovely Neapolitan Queen, Marie Caroline, sister to Marie Antoinette of tragic memory, and lastly to be the passion and inspiration of Nelson, hero of Trafalgar. Illiterate, geistlos, breathtakingly beautiful, object of adoration and of scorn, Emma Hamilton's star flashed through triumphant, troublous skies, and two centuries have not quenched its sullied splendor...
...with some of the most expensive-looking foreign labels. But it is not a temperance lecture-its moral is put over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner Baxter stand out in this film...
Died. Mrs. Waldo Percy Goff, sister-in-law of John W. Davis, onetime U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; in Manhattan, of paralysis, after a year's illness...
...Harlem section of New York, usually so peaceful and law-abiding, received a severe jolt. About 4 :30 o'clock in the morning when "Bill" Brennan, ex-pugilist and proprietor of the Club Tia Juana Cabaret, was eating a good-night meal with his sister (stage name Shirley Sherman) and with his old friend, James Cullen, a State trooper, a man stepped into the cabaret, tapped Brennan on the shoulder, said : "Bill, can I see you a minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister...