Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president, applied to the legislature a short while after the Revolution, and claimed that she was in need of a pension and certainly merited it, as the mother of the patriot. Her son, then president, was greatly embarrassed we have a letter which he wrote to his sister, vehemently protesting that their mother was well able to take care of herself on her substantial income. Among the letters just unearthed is the complete statement of the executors of Mrs. Washington's will, in which her property is assessed, and shown to be of considerable value, fully large enough to support...
...start and the first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again in a shell hole...
...Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes. By custom the Vice President's wife presides. But Vice President-Elect Curtis is a widower. His sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, is to serve as his official hostess. Should that make her a Senate Lady? Should that make her president of the club...
...modists who have drawn the old-style plans is Mr. Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania. "Who is Mr. Grundy?" ask the ill-informed. "We have heard of his wife?or his sister-in-law?or of some Mrs. Grundy?but who, oh who is MISTER Grundy...
...Sacramento, often revisited California. After being graduated from Harvard (1878) he spurred his father's enterprises, added to them (Mills hotels for poor workingmen; mines, real estate, banks, railroads, steamships, public utilities). He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History. His sister is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the late Ambassador to Great Britain...