Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers' head came her sister, Amelia Siblich, called "Flaming Milka" for the bright red dress she wore...
...imposing funeral procession made its way through Moscow several days after his death to the ancient monastery of Novo Devichi, where Peter the Great's elder sister, Sofia, was for many years imprisoned. Grey-clad troops acted as escort to the hearse, which was followed by many Communist notables and members of the Oppositionist ranks. In their rear came some 500 of the populace followed again by a company of troops. They were no untoward incidents along the route...
Married. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, sister of the onetime Kaiser of Germany, widow of the late (1916) Prince Adolphus zu Schaumburg-Lippe; to Alexander Zubkov, 27, onetime Russian refugee and onetime dishwasher, professional dancer, cinema "extra...
...this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...
...teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers, to be issued as the Juilliard Editions. Rhoda Erskine, (sister of Author Erskine) will give classes in history and literature for students who have had little general education...