Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister-in-law, Edith Hale Harkness, recorded her opinion with a check for $1,000. Other contributors: Irenee du Pont of Wilmington, Del., $5,000; Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Arthur C. James, Manhattan and Newport financier and yachtsman, $2,500; Richard T. Crane, Chicago foundry potentate...
...married sister, a U. S. citizen, brought her to this country. In Chicago she became a milliner. She took out her first citizenship papers; her second papers have been filed and now await a hearing. Last spring she received a message from Warsaw that her father was dying. Forthwith she applied for a permit to re-enter the U. S., obtained it, sailed for Poland. Her father recovered. She started back for Chicago. In Paris her purse and her permit were stolen, but the U. S. consul at Paris assured her that she would have no trouble re-entering this...
...clock this afternoon is neither the beginning nor the end of a Big Game. A big game starts on Monday, and ends the Friday following the day of play. Not only twenty-four rather attractive fellows in colorful jersies play the game, but the world and his brother, his sister, Dad and the maiden aunt play it, morning, noon, and night. And there are no holds barred...
After 20 minutes, Thomas Marshall's boat hove in sight, soon followed by a sister smack. The marooned ones edged warily from the sinking wings to the fuselage, from the fuselage toward the rudders. When Thomas Marshall was near enough to make himself heard he told them not to jump. They looked at shivering Mr. Kanevaros of Indiana and waited obediently until ropes were passed and they were all taken off. Pilot Dinsmore, now standing waist-deep, was the last. As the smack swung clear, the plane pulled her tail under and slid down to join the Spanish galleons...
Clad in a bathing cap and a coat of black axle grease and nothing else, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, a mother, climbed out of New York Harbor into a sheet held by her sister, while whistles screeched and 200 rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from...