Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defenses at Charlestown Prison, which none might "approach closer than 1,000 feet. Relatives of the prisoners, however, were admitted to the death house. To reach the death cells they had to pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
Sinn Fein: This group represents the die-hard Republicans, led by Miss Mary McSwiney, sister of Cork's late Lord Mayor. It believes in forcible methods to overthrow the Free State regime...
...Bremen, early separated from her sister plane, apparently avoided the fog. London reported the plane unofficially over the North Sea; later also unofficially over Yorkshire...
Naval observers recalled that the Nelson and her sister ship the Rodney both comply with the Washington Treaty of 1922 by which capital ships were limited to 35,000 tons and guns to 16-inch bore. Everyone knows that the U. S., Britain and Japan abandoned by this treaty their programs for a type of battle-cruiser of some 43,000 tons. The U. S. and Japan scrapped or converted into aircraft carriers several partially completed boats of this type; and the British were so fortuntate as to be allowed to keep their 41,200-ton battle-cruiser...
...year ago Harry Payne Whitney, generous turfman, sold four horses for a song, because Ogden Mills and Ogden Mills' sister (Mrs. Henry C. Phipps) were his good friends, because he wished them luck with their new Wheatley Stables. One of the four yearlings, a slender bay colt with a reckless eye, bore the name of Dice...