Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, we are more confident than heretofore as to the outcome of his illness." The President showed an active interest in his plans. He inquired whether he could not start for Washington in two or three days. He asked for some "old-fashioned blackberry juice." During the day his sister, Mrs. E. E. Remsberg, of Santa Ana, paid him a short visit...
...Empress Carlotta, known to the Habsburg Court as "Belgian Charlotte " is a sister of Leopold II, late king of the Belgians. She had influence in Vienna after marrying the Archduke Maximilian, brother of the late Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. It was on account of her meddlesomeness that the court hated her and was unmistakably relieved when she departed with her husband to rule Mexico, through the instrumentality of Napoleon III, Emperor of France...
...Lucretia Mott, eloquent Quakeress, attending the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Western New York, visited her sister at Auburn. At Seneca Falls, ten miles away, was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another gifted young advocate of women's rights. They had met before at an anti-slavery conference in London. Now, being so near together, they met again?and decided to hold a convention...
...Court of Appeals upheld a verdict awarding $45,000 damages and costs to the Russian Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the ex-Tzar...
...wake of Emile Coué, many innovations, scientific and otherwise, have followed. There is, for instance, " Sister" Mabel Harrell, nurse of New York, who has effected miraculous " cures" in Harlem, Negro enclave of the metropolis. Cripples, paralytics, the blind and deaf, idiot children have flocked to her meetings in an ecstasy of evangelical fervor. Prayer, hymn-singing, the laying on of hands, and unquestioning faith are her only accessories. These "cures " are, of course, explainable by perfectly natural psychological processes, and are nothing new under the sun. For certain types of afflictions, and with certain religious temperaments, Sister Harrell...