Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Mirador, Grenwood, Va.), member of the British Parliament, arrived on the Aquitania with 27 pieces of baggage, a diamond tiara and a daughter (Phyllis). They were met at the pier by Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They are to attend the great ball given by Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. For reporters, Lady Astor had some of her customary quixotic generalities: "I am a wily old politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That...
...know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three Bat'as founded their own small shoe factory...
...came to Abyssinia to practice the quieter forms of medicine. He became a favorite of Ras Taffari. But Ras Taffari wanted to become Emperor. Two persons were in his way. One was the Empress, Zauditu, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. The other was his mother-in-law, sister of the deposed (1916) Emperor Yasu...
This was remarkable because Sally Lanier and her sister were playing the forward positions. They are both splendid horsewomen; Sally, despite the fact that it was only a few years ago that she left Rosemary Hall, is experienced in polo while her sister, more nearly a novice, was the more eager to display her speed & brilliance. Charles B. Lanier, their father, the son of Poet Sidney Lanier, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Review of Reviews; the Laniers live in Greenwich, Conn. The Lanier girls began to ride horses as soon as they could walk; pictures of them jumping...
Beloved Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, sister and chatelaine of Bachelor Tsar Boris, was last week, the house guest at Balmoral, Scotland, of Their Britannic Majesties. Queen Mary was reported to have baited His Majesty's hook, last week, with a worm, in the presence of witnesses. "She can do it much better than I can," was a remark attributed to George V by a correspondent of the U. S. Luke Lea newspaper chain...