Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dave Wright was charged with murdering the sister-in-law of Major Brown...
...Premiers, pleasurably aghast, viewed the mighty steel framework of these sister ships, each 730 feet long and to be equipped each with five 600-horsepower heavy oil engines, capable of driving the ships 4,000 miles without refueling at 60 miles an hour. Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare explained, pointing with a chubby handled cane, just where the 100 passengers to be carried by each ship will berth, asserted that they will be served six-course dinners, 50 at a time in the dining salon, will promenade upon two decks between which will ply electric elevators...
...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
Last month in Aiken, S. C., a band of the new gentry lynched three Negroes, Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister Bertha, with a refinement of tactics (TIME, Oct. 18). They hauled their prey out of jail one night, took them out of town, told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned to look. In 200 parked cars the gentry stepped on their starters, satisfied...
Engaged. Malcolm E. Nichols, Mayor of Boston; to Carrie Marjorie Williams. She is the twin sister of Mayor Nichols' first wife...