Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This creature is one Alexander Dvorjanin Zubkov, 27, a Russian adventurer of no profession who sensationally wooed and married, last fall (TIME, Nov. 28), the Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, rich and eccentric sister of one-time Kaiser Wilhelm...
Last week despatches told that Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, had been besought to give Zubkov sanctuary. She had received, it was said, a personal and impassioned plea from the doting wife who is, after all, the sister of a onetime German Emperor. Would Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, sympathize with Princess Victoria...
...infant daughter, for no other 0reason except that the Count had never asked her to marry him. Three years previous she did a similar thing to his best friend, only this time it was a son. The Count Vriaac and his friend, ignorant that their children were brother and sister, almost force them to marry. A timely arrival of the Marquise prevents the catastrophe...
Comtesse de Chambrun (née Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, sister of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) was made a member of the French Legion of Honor, in recognition of her researches to explode the theory that Francis Bacon wrote the works of William Shakespeare. For the last 26 years she has been a resident of France and Morocco, where her husband, General le Comte Jacques-Adalbert de Chambrun, has been stationed for eight years...
...went to sit near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' " Mr. Dodgson told...