Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Waters Taft, sister-in-law of the Chief Justice of the U. S., announced herself a Smith lady, collected campaign money in Manhattan. Some people remarked that on Feb. 7, 1912, Mrs. Taft became a Roman Catholic. Some people remarked that lately Mr. Chief Justice Taft's ten-year-old prognostications about what Prohibition would lead to, were republished (TIME...
Other clients, who desired to make ambitious and tangible presents, were dissuaded by the architects who suggested a more practical scheme. In pursuance of this scheme Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received...
Christened. Paul Joseph William Ziluca, great grandson of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, famed liberator of Italy. His father: Captain Joseph N. Ziluca, war veteran, engineer & architect of Greenwich, Conn. His mother: Donna Josephine Ziluca, sister of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford. His godfather: Sir Thomas Lipton...
Lillian Gish and David Wark Griffith met in Mary Pickford's dressing-room in the old Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...
...doing you would merely cause unnecessary pain to pious devotees of Islam. In the present instance, I fear that you have shocked the Catholic Sister cruelly, unless you cancelled her subscription so promptly that she did not receive the issue in which her letter and the verse appeared. If I am any judge of human nature, she at least flipped through a copy to see if her letter had been printed. You might have spared her a shock, and perhaps tears...