Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor miller who dabbled in philosophy and science, Isaac Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville, Me. In his youth he pitched hay and won fame as wrestler at county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...years ago, when he was 15, did they tell Oscar Greenberg who he was. He insisted on going to live with his mother. At home he found Mollie Greenberg but as she grew into a ripe young Jewish woman of 15, he could not think of her as his sister. Two months ago they eloped, married. Last week they were apprehended in their secret home. The judge held them in $500 bail for incest...
...through the Bois de Boulogne and dancing on tables in Maxim's, and at the same time trying to marry a widow for her fortune. I demand the immediate payment of 50,000 francs [$2,000]. The film constitutes a serious libel on myself, my family, chiefly my sister, the Queen of Italy, and on my late lamented country, Montenegro. "Although The Merry Widow has been presented as a light opera for over 20 years, I have never until now raised any objection because the character of 'Danilo' has always been represented as pleasing and sympathetic...
Married. Miserosetta Macini, daughter of the only sister of Premier Benito Mussolini;* to Pier Giovanni Ricci, Fascist officer; in Rome. He (Benito Mussolini) acted as witness, gave her a ruby bracelet...
Wilbur--"Yes, Yes, Yvette"--8.10 o'clock--Being the little sister of "No, No, Nannette." About a gentleman who bet he could tell the truth. And what it gets...