Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile voices bereft of such Divinity, the voices of England's old aristocracy, spoke without mincing of His Royal Highness. They recalled the oft quoted sneer which he may or may not have uttered when his only sister, Princess Mary, married Viscount Lascelles (Feb. 28, 1922). Said Edward of Wales, reputedly, on that occasion: "Every day I get commoner and commoner, and every day Lascelles gets royaler and royaler." To Lord Lascelles and others of the landed peerage, the remark has seemed to have a backhand twist not inappropriate to Slummer Edward...
...graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader at Hankow, partly because he is the brother-in-law of the late founder of the Nationalist movement, famed Dr. Sun Yatsen. He and his sister, the pretty widow, serve to remind soldiers and coolies of the great revolutionary name. 2) Eugene Chen, Foreign Secretary of the Nationalist Government, who employs a white U. S. citizen, as his under secretary, and said last week: "We are not antiforeign, but anti-imperial. We are not against Germany or Russia...
...Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count René de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...
...grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half-embraced his son with a fatherly pat upon the back and stepped out of the com- partment again onto the platform. Edward of Wales, always in high spirits when chatting with his merry sister-in-law, rode down to Portsmouth, as did Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal party stepped upon the quay, it was seen that the Duchess had donned with a reason her ensemble of silver grey shoes, stockings, custume and hat, relieved only by a bunch of violets. There...
Married. Clyde R. Powell, 34, to lima Rose Callendar, 18; and Edwin H. Powell, 17, his son, to Evelyn Irene Callendar, 17, sister of the other bride; in Sterling, Col. Clyde R. Powell becomes brother-in-law of his son, and Mrs. Clyde R. Powell sister-in-law to her sister, and stepmother of her brother...