Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Lucia Hosmer Chase, daughter of Irving H. Chase, President Ingersoll Watch Co.; sister of Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft II, Chief Justice Taft's daughter-in-law; to one Thomas Ewing, Jr.; in Waterbury...
Brave John Umbles, Negro, one-time personal orderly to General John Joseph Pershing, helped save five people from drowning last summer. Later mean Mr. Umbles murdered his wife and his sister-in-law. Should Mr. Umbles be hanged by the neck? "Yes," said the Alabama jury which convicted him of his second murder. "No," said the Alabama Board of Pardons, which last week recommended that his death sentence be changed to life imprisonment...
...school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses Ely had founded their school, to accommodate...
Married. Olive Tell, 30, famed actress, sister of Actress Alma Tell; to one Henry Morgan Hobart, 42, cinema producer; in Manhattan...
Married. Ellis Williams, 72, boyhood chum of onetime British Premier David Lloyd George; to Mrs. Martha Smith, 79, sister of Mr. Williams' third wife; in Denver. Born in Wales, Mr. Williams loudly boasts that as a youth he once defeated Mr. Lloyd George at marbles...