Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe the marriage was momentous. The Tsarinas of Russia had been German since Catharine II (1762-1796). But the Empress Marie avowedly hated Germany and the Germans, and her sister was Alexandra of Britain. It was in the reign of the Empress Marie that the alienation of Moscow from Berlin became as marked as its rapprochement with London...
...readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
...town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion...
Married. Katherine Wright, sister of Orville and the late Wilbur Wright (airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...
...Proud Woman. Playwright Richman starts out to write a "character comedy." The story: a provincial maid, about to wed a wealthy Manhattanite, finds all her hopes, plans, thoughts, poisoned by the arrival of her sister who brings a small-town suspicion to the guileless urbanity of the metropolis. Near the end, the sister's meretricious snooping is smartly smacked down; marriage negotiations are resumed. The "comedy of character" fails to concentrate on one principal character. Little episodes of suspicion are heaped, one upon the other, to build up a mound of irritation, but not a real climax. No single...