Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finds it pleasing, then, to discover Harvard's own representative in the act of regaining some of the unique distinction...time...is held to have been filtered away, and that in the sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot showed that the foundation belief in international good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious...
...student of a sister University was recently heard to declare that he hated Harvard men. Being asked to state the reasons which led him to hold this opinion, he said that they dressed too confounded well: and with this frank confession of jealousy the conversation came...
...world. All he need do is to dress like everybody else; but it may perhaps be worth while to remark that a man who carries an opera hat lined with anything but black might properly be termed a howling cad or a graduate of the sister University mentioned before...
...years ago, when William Bramwell Booth succeeded his father, the late General William Booth, as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, the younger Booth was presumed to have chosen his own successor in traditional Salvation Army fashion. The present incumbent, according to tradition, names his favorite brother or sister "in arms," writing his choice on a slip of paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals Wycliffe...
Died. Viscountess Pamela Grey, 57, since 1922 wife of Viscount Grey of Fallodon, previously sister-in-law of Margot Asquith; at Salisbury, England. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Viscountess Grey & her two sisters has long been famed as The Three Graces...