Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl was best man at the wedding of the Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal, King George's eldest sister; consequently he made their two daughters, Princess Arthur of Connaught* and Princess Maud his principal legatees...
Princess Maud receives the diamond necklace left by her sister and about $250,000, but if her "contemplated marriage" with Lord Carnegie, eldest son of the Earl of Southesk, is solemnized, Lord Carnegie is to receive the money...
...each of 50 of Earl Farquhar's "dear friends in the hope that they will accept them in the spirit I have made them, as the token of my affection, and that they will buy a remembrance of me." Provision is also made for other friends, his stepchildren, his sister's family and his servants...
From his conversation one gains an impression of homely words exquisitely arranged. He is proud of his family?his daughters are both accomplished? in fact, one of them is to appear in Walter Hamp den's company at the National theatre, Manhattan. His wife, a sister of Lorado Taft, the sculpter, is a gracious hostess and a beautiful woman. She is the heroine of A Daughter of the Middle Border and the frankness and yet good taste with which Mr. Garland describes his life with her is one of the high points in literary autobiography...
Rosita. Mary Pickford returns to the screen with her clustered curls tucked on top of her head. America's so-called sweetheart becomes thereby America's married sister...