Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-six hours after his attack he was, by sheer force of will, able to greet Dr. Laubry, his specialist, standing on his own feet. Anxiously hovering near was his trained nurse, white-coifed Sister Theoneste. Ten years ago during the Peace Conference, Clémenceau was shot-wounded by a young anarchist named Cottin.* It was Sister Theoneste who nursed him back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated...
...next morning Correspondent Ralph Heinzen passed through the "Death Watch," entered M. Clémenceau's bedroom. He found the old gentleman at his desk again, scratching at his manuscript, still grumbling at patient Sister Theoneste, looking with his cap, his drooping mus-Of Anarchist Emile Cottin Tiger Clémenceau has exclaimed: "The idot! They condemned him to be guillotined. I signed his pardon myself!" tache and slanting eyes more like a venerable Chinese idol than ever...
When General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, entered heaven, he left his dynasty in the hands of his son, William Bramwell Booth. William quarreled with his sister, Commander Evangeline Cory Booth; the dynasty was endangered (TIME, Jan. 14). Last March the deadlock between Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline was broken when the Salvation Army Council elected Edward John Higgins as General (TIME, Mar. 11 ) . Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline had another sister, Lucy Booth-Hellberg, 61, stationed at Stockholm, where were her home and her husband's grave. Last week Lucy Booth-Hellberg, appointed to a station in South...
...Feature of the opening concert was the première of Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York, scored for full orchestra and jazz band. Attentive listeners to its ingenious noise were Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes, Mrs. Nikolai Sokolov, Composer Janssen, his mother and sister, all together in a box. In Cincinnati the symphony founded 35 years ago by Mrs. William Howard Taft began its first season under the auspices of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. Now assisting in its support will be a new fund-$2,000,000 contributed by the general public...
George Lemesneger, Los Angeles winemaker and realtor, died in 1926. One of his three daughters was Sister Philomene of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in St. Louis. Released of her vows she went to California, as Miss Jeanne Lemesneger, to settle the estate (valued between $5,000,000 and $8,000,000). Last week it was learned that she had inherited some $1,500,000, that she would return to convent life...