Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rasputin. When a guest broached to the Grand Duke Alexander the subject of the notorious "Black Monk" called Rasputin, or the "Debauchee," he recoiled with a slight gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very...
...Deception Island, Captain Wilkins sent a long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...
Ganna Walska had doings in three big cities last week. In Manhattan she opened a perfume shop to be sister of one opened by her a year ago on the Rue de la Paix in Paris. In Washington she gave a concert, was entertained by President and Mrs. Coolidge, Polish Minister and Mme. Jan Ciechanowska, French Ambassador and Mme. Paul Claudel. la Chicago she had intended to sing but instead she took to her bed with influenza, cancelled all future engagements. When newsmen asked Harvester Harold Fowler McCormick if his wife intended to forsake her singing, he answered...
...State Centre. But W. L. Blizzard of Stillwater, Okla., who awarded one of the prizes, told Clarence to enter Dick for the grand champion prize. Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took Dick to judgment. Clarence was sick to his stomach. If Dick won the grand champion steer prize, that would be Dick's end. He would be sold at auction (as is the live stock show's custom), killed and eaten at some rich Christmas carouse...