Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unknown among its own people. His books, his pamphlets, his articles, went broadcast over Kansas, over the U. S., beyond the continent. They had fetching illustrations, wonderful titles: The Corns that Kansas Farmers Have, Alfalfa's Affinity, The Hog's Happy Habitat, The Beef Steer and His Sister, The Helpful Hen. Some of his work went out at his own expense, some at the expense of the State. Once the Kansas legislature, fearful of the way he overshadowed it, denied him his annual appropriation for postage. There is a story that once a letter from England addressed...
...picture in indeed a family affair. Lottie Pickford, absent from the screen for several years, plays devoted handmaiden to her sister, while Allan Forrest, Lottie's husband, portrays the gallant lover who rescues noble Dorothy from the intriguing circle that would marry her off in the approved fashion of historical drama. Mary undertook the play, as she expressed it, to save herself from "being strangled in her own curls." More dramatic than usual, she has several powerful scenes with Clare Eames, who plays her favorite role of Queen Elizabeth with versatile sinuosity, as one born to make history...
...Martin, informed that her husband was safe: "I am going to ask Fred to make the greatest sacrifice he ever made in his life: I want him to promise me he will never fly again. . . . God bless the little messenger boy that delivered the telegram. He came to my sister's house where I have been staying . . . and his face was radiant with smiles. Instinctively, I knew he had brought me good news...
...Christian Association, in Manhattan. This was a truly international affair, in which women from all over the world?white, saffron, café-au-lait?took part. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came unexpectedly from Washington to deliver an address, at the instance of Mrs. Frederick Paist, his sister and President of the national organization. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., celebrated the convention by giving an international house-party for a number of delegates?including Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Denmark, and Mrs. H. C. Mei, head of the Chinese delegation. The organization, now in its 18th...
...that I, 'a consistent equestrian,' was pleased." Albert B. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interior: " At Santa Monica, Calif., one Mrs. Katherine Petty was arrested, charged with carrying concealed weapons. Letters and telegrams found in her apartment and signed with my name, established her identity as my sister." Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: " At the weekly luncheon of the ladies of the Cabinet, it was announced that I was indisposed. It later developed that I had a 'slight touch of measles.' " Mrs. Magnus Johnson, wife of Minnesota's junior...