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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was captured by the Chinese bandits she managed to hide her jewelry (valued at $50,000) in the ground. When released and returned to Peking, she drew from memory a rough map of the place. A search was organized and the jewels were finally discovered by " Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Company. He received "an extremely substantial reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boy No. 1 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

SEVENTH HEAVEN?Drama in a Paris garret, revolving about a modern Cinderella whose wicked big sister beats her. The worm turns and Helen Menken flagellates her evil relative with a blacksnake whip in a moment of thrilling melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

Married. Consuelo Morgan, divorced wife of the Comte de Maupas du Juglart, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul General at Brussels, and sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., acting chargé d'affaires of the American Embassy, at Ixelles, Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...closed shop" controversy, and fearing that should the clash come next fall, no matter what the result, the playwrights would be the grist between the theatrical millstones, the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America is trying to reconcile little brother manager and little sister Equity. Should the efforts of the dramatists prove unavailing, they propose to organize as a labor union and join the A. F. of L. Then, if either actor or manager should try to start anything with them-well, just let them try it! Another worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen years later married Anna Roosevelt, sister of the then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 12, 1923 | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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