Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strength. With her sister ships, the Maryland (in commission for some time) and the West Virginia (to be commissioned about December 1), the Colorado ranks as the most formidable of our fleet units. These three ships are our only first line vessels built since the Battle of Jutland, and embody all that was there learned of naval architecture...
...book forms a delightful link with society of the past. The letters of Julian Fane to his sister (Lady Rose) are of great interest and value, especially those written from Russia. The correspondence which passed between H.R.H. the Grand Duchess of Baden and Lady Rose, even during the late War, shows a simple, sincere and human friendliness, which does not fail to awaken a vivid sympathy. The book also gives some idea, superficial it is true, of the German view...
...private secretary to the head of her firm. She was earning as much as Roy; she loved her work. Could she give up adventure and independence for Roy and a dingy little house in Flatbush? Not on your weekly pay-envelope! So she wished Roy off on her domestic sister Alice and went on her way triumphant, while Roy and Alice (who had never heard of birth-control) at once began raising a family out of all proportion to their means...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "My sister-in-law, Miss Lucy Aldrich, who was captured by bandits at Shantung, China, several weeks ago, arrived at the Golden Gate...
Died. Baroness Constance Hoyt von Stumm, wife of Baron Ferdinand von Stumm, in Bavaria, suddenly. She was a daughter of the later Henry Martyn Hoyt, Solicitor General during President Taft's Administration, and a sister of Mrs. Elinor Wylie, poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt, sometime Governor of Pennsylvania, was her grandfather; Morton McMichael, former Mayor of Philadelphia, her great-grandfather...