Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What little excitement the closing days of the campaign held was provided by pugnacious, Virginia-born, Viscountess Nancy Astor. For several days Britain debated whether or not: 1) Lady Astor had knocked a Labor organizer's hat off at Plymouth. 2) Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Paul Phipps, had received a nasty blow in the pit of the stomach from a young woman Laborite carrying a baby...
...matches went on, Helen Wills and her sister Californian Edith Cross were roundly beaten by Elia de Alvarez and Kea Bouman, who won the doubles championship...
...intimated in Minneapolis in April, before the awards were announced, that his Committee had voted the novel prize to John Rathbone Oliver's Victim and Victor. The advisory board, whose decision is final, had gone over this vote in selecting Scarlet Sister Mary. No criticism came from Dr. Burton of the decision...
Charles Knox, founder of Knox Hats, came to the U. S. from Ireland in 1830, aged 12. The New York bound ship in which he crossed the Atlantic had been blown far out of its course and finally made port at Wilmington, Del., leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks...
...from Germany (in 1879) but with no banking prospects nor heiress to wed. A job got he in an architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club in his hand...