Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Ill's sister, Peggy Ann, aged three, was a little more sedate, a little more aware of the importance of her position, except when her grandmother took her to the Amaryllis exhibition at the Department of Agriculture. There Mrs. Hoover, patience herself with children, had her hands full keeping Peggy Ann from clutching handfuls of the flowers. "I want 'em! I want 'em!" she kept repeating...
...does the death of villain and the charming capers of a gay, cynical young hero. The complicated plot is only less fortuitous than that of Swinnerton's latest novel, A Brood of Ducklings −Hero Locritus tracks down the villain who has absconded with his sister Fanny, only to discover that the same villain has kept his, Locritus's, sweetheart Margaret out of her inheritance. At a single stroke Locritus thereupon restores Fanny to her rightful suitor, restores himself and the inheritance to Margaret, and they all live happily...
...Potomac", ring throughout the bustling cities and peaceful hamlets of the land. For an open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most people who read the Vice President's demands of last month that his sister be given the social privileges which go to his wife thought the matter would be allowed to end then and there...
...leaders of Washington society. After smouldering for several weeks the revolt against the demands of the second executive of the United States has flamed up with the refusal of the wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to give place to the Vice President's sister at social functions...
...Anne Boleyn, young, bold, bright-faced, ambitious. Her sister had been a mistress of Henry's. No mistress would she be. Heavy-breathing Henry wrote long love letters to her with hearts drawn on them. She bore Elizabeth. He said she was adulterous, chopped off her head...