Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George V's preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...
Anne Morrow, with her mother and sister Elizabeth, last week headed home towards Englewood, N. J., from Mexico. At Houston, Tex., she resisted newsmen with her fiance's phrase: "I have nothing to say." Said Sister Elizabeth: "One of the things which helped Col. Lindbergh to his fame was his silence on personal affairs...
...Russia, why should they not be divorced there? Though no U. S. couple is known to have made the experiment, it was instructively performed last week by a Chilean, Señor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera. Smitten with love for one Martha Schmidt, his wife's sister, he sought a divorce in order to remarry...
Where the Vice President lives is of small concern to the U. S. Government, which gives him $15,000 per annum and leaves him to find his own quarters. When Vice President Charles Curtis established himself, his official-hostess sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, and Mr. Gann, at the fashionable Mayflower Hotel, Washington busybodies eyed the apartment (foyer, double-sized drawing room, dining room for 26 guests, smoking room, library, four bedrooms, two servants' rooms, kitchen, furnished at a cost of $75,000), ascertained its normal rental ($22,500 per year), and hastily concluded that Mr. Curtis...
...John Harvard" and "Veritas" are sister ships, 20 feet long, with a five foot beam, and costing $3600 each. They will be used for coaching on week days, the larger boats being reserved for following races in the Basin. The addition of these two Greenport boats brings the Harvard coaching feet to a total of eight launches...