Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evenings, though, were brighter than his days. At about 10 p. m. his wife, Marcelle, would call, with his brother, Norman, and his sister-in-law. (Visiting hours were theoretically from 7 to 8, but not for the Carrolls.) The visitors left usually about midnight, and then Room 19 would be,, quiet until, in the morning, three sharp buzzes told the nurse that the patient was awake. But he took little interest in anything except the Manhattan newspapers, which usually came out from his room with theatrical and social items clipped from them...
...Majesty had been paying court to Emma's sister, Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont who, despite the honor, absolutely refused to marry him because of his age and reputation. A well substantiated account tells that 21-year-old Princess Emma burst in upon the pair at the critical moment after His Majesty had been refused...
...births, christenings, weddings, and bitter deaths". The first outstanding figure in the family line bears still a light touch of eightteenth-century-grace and sprightliness; his-still successful-son is of Victorian solidity, not without a note of religious and general hypocrisy. The third generation consists of one sister of energetic, lively character, and of two brothers; one an entirely useless person, given to a frivolous life much to the sorrow of his parents, and yet-poor Christian-a good companion and a likeable fellow! His elder brother keeps better in line with the family tradition. He brings the name...
...series of news items from 1911 to 1925, indicating the preference of young Thomas F. Manville Jr. and his sister Lorraine for cabarets, footlights, chorus girls and comedians, predicted a business event of last week-the passage of the H. S. Johns-Manville Co. of Manhattan, $32,000,000 manufacturer of asbestos and magnesia products, from the family that has built it up since 1858 to bankers who will run it now that there are no suitable Manvilles left...
...without a word Death went down, leaving the lightning flash, and carried Sister Caroline back...