Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debenture bonds at 4½% interest. Dillon, Read & Co. bought them all up, knowing that the bonds had a swift sale.* Standard Oil of New Jersey's yearly interest on this item will be $6,000,000. Had its bonds been sold at the 4½% of its sister company's it would have saved $600,000 yearly in interest...
...spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress in wilderness America. David's locket shows Silver Cross, twin sister of the man slain by David, to be of utmost virginal beauty. Ever the champion of such females, Shiloh sets off across the Appalachians afoot with good-hearted David, improvising odes to Nature, caroling Greek choruses, skimming the rugged terrain with strides of flamelike lightness and celerity...
They say that Liberty, five-cent fiction weekly of Col. Robert R. McCormick and Major Joseph Medill Patterson, proud overlords of that opulent vulgarian, the Chicago Tribune and its get-rich-quick little grub-sister, the New York Daily News, was established as an outlet for accumulated moneys upon which the income tax was becoming burdensome. Loosely speaking it was founded to "lose money...
Married. Malcolm E. Nichols, Mayor of Boston; to Carrie M. Williams, twin sister of the late Mrs. Nichols. His son Clark, aged 9, was best man; his son Dexter, 7, ringbearer; his daughter Marjorie, 4, flower girl...
Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...