Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Japanese women, who have endured like Noguchi's sister, became openly irate over the present condition of medicine in Japan. The country has few great physicians and surgeons. But the average of the profession is far below the U. S. average. Quackery, magic and hokus-pokus are all too prevalent...
...Riviera. In 1911 she won long-sought social standing by her marriage to Count von Treuberg, a bankrupt naval officer. She had arranged to pay him 25,000 marks, but never did so and the marriage was later annulled. Aviator Beese's father, mother and sister all were suicides before...
...Sister Annunziata, a d'Orobelli without beauty or dot, had long since been hidden in a convent where she devoted her life to the adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she beheld upon it the miracle of the Stigmata. The sadness of Annunziata's life was turned to joy at this sign from her patron saint...
...with a ready curse for any emergency. For the sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother's-woman. He also adopted a Spanish lady and married his exquisite sister to a gypsyman-and all to the pleasant rhythm of horse-racing, yarn-spinning, and the distant crash of waves...
...Evangeline Lindbergh, Spartan mother of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, sailed on the Lloyd-Sabaudo liner Conte Grande to teach chemistry in Constantinople at the American College for Girls. With her, bound for the same institution was Miss Alice Morrow, sister of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow. Both denied that Charles Augustus was engaged to Ambassador Morrow's daughter, Elisabeth...