Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it was going to be distributed to apease their hunger and calm their anxiety. Now you think of their embarrassment when going to ask for a little food they are bruskely, insolently turned away. To substantiate the above I have in front of me a letter from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part: "This hurricane was worse than the storm of 1899 (she writes). "We had to move to a house stronger than ours - but the wind shook the walls like a young tree. During one day and night we remained under...
...Subscriber Rivera's sister conquer her neurosis or "inferiority complex" and boldly demand her fair share of food from the American Red Cross. Let no insolent clerk again upset her by crying, "Chow" Let Subscriber Rivera report to TIME that all is now well, or otherwise...
...present in his younger son. Brother Phil is the artist, Brother Bob the scientist, of politico-social activity. Both are intense, but in Brother Phil the intensity is more apparent. He is less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When they were children, their oldest sister, Fola LaFollette, found small Robert sitting gloomily on the porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they wouldn't let me come...
...strapping Autocrat's "Old Woman," who died last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the onetime Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, sister of the late British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of the assassinated King George I of Greece, aunt of the present Kings of England, Norway and Denmark, and mother of Tsar Nicholas the Last. To millions of Russians she was once "Matoushka Tsaritsa," their "Dear little Mother-Empress...
Lady Astor, who used to be Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, came over from England for the occasion. There was more than social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years...