Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon they had broken into the U. S., British and Japanese consulates, robbed, glutted. All the foreign houses except those of Ginling College were looted-the college escaping because a young Nationalist soldier who had a sister studying there arrived with a detachment to guard the campus. ¶ The Japanese suffered most. Several women servants at their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms...
...Austin, Tex., came Jose Torres, Augustin Salido, Tomas Zafiro, Lola Cuzarare, her sister Juanita. All are famed Tarahumara Indian runners of Mexico. They were to perform for the white men at the University of Texas games to substantiate nebulous reports of their prowess...
Lola Cuzarare, 14, won a shorter event for women, accomplishing 28% miles in 4 hr. 42 min. Her sister, Juanita, 16, mother of several children, had given up within sight of the goal. Lola evinced lack of fatigue by adding a few unnecessary laps in the stadium proper...
...upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian X, of Norwegian King Haakon...
That respected, venerable statesman Minister of Justice Louis Barthou visited, last week, the prison of St. Lazare and there presented one Sister Marie Perpetue with the Order of the Legion of Honor for her 50 years' work among fallen women at the prison...