Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is just another of Colonel Green's strange whims," saiD one of his neighbors, Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton, sister-in-law of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Since "Prince Carol" has thus far lived quietly as a private person, in Paris, he caused great excitement last week by referring to himself as "King Carol II" in communicating to newsgatherers the statement that he would see no one. Reputedly Carol received last week a message from his sister, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, imploring him not to attempt to return to Rumania, even for the funeral of their father, and advising him not to call himself "Carol II." Seemingly he resolved to take his sister's advice, although newsgatherers and photographers surrounded Carol's villa day and night, hoping...
...White was born in Baltimore in 1850. In 1879 he married Miss Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, sister-in-law of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Mrs. White died in 1916. In 1920 Mr. White married Mrs. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, who survives...
...forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to nature's demands, with the result that there exists a general state of dissimulation and hypocrisy that is rotting the soul of America...
Nancy Hoyt, sister of Poetess Elinor Wylie, devotee of the Great God Mencken, is a worldly wise young lady adept at cynical, momentary elegance of thought and phrase. Her previous novel, Roundabout, was not "popular...