Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lady Rachel Howard, 34, eldest sister of the Duke of Norfolk, who is Britain's No. 1 Roman Catholic peer; and Colin Keppel Davidson, 43, Clerk of the House of Lords; in Arundel, England...
...Herminia Peralta Dargie died, her devoted Captain Martin (but not Joe Knowland) at her bedside. To Captain Martin she left ("as I would have done had he been my son") one-half of her residuary estate, the other half going to her sister, Mrs. Josefa Peralta Wilson. Taking precedence over these legacies was some $300,000 of cash bequests, which Herminia Dargie had apparently intended to be paid out of Tribune profits...
Under such headings as "Don'ts" Every Girl Should Know, How to Attract a Husband, Lures Men Can't Resist, she chatters of the business of mating in the lower brackets with the kindly solicitude of a slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would do credit to a brothel-keeper. Sample Dix advice to the nubile: "A young girl who lets any one boy monopolize her simply shuts the door in the face of good times and her chances of making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note...
...Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery is a director of Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., famed British warship-builders, is married to a sister of Viscount Greenwood, another of whose sisters married Viscount Wimborne's nephew...
...Serrano Suñer, fastest-climbing of Europe's modern politicos. Now 37, a lawyer educated in Italy, Señor Serrano's pre-war claims to distinction were his service as a Catholic deputy in the Cortes, his marriage to handsome Señorita Polo, sister of Señora Franco. His war record included an escape from Madrid's Model Prison, a trip to Germany to be feted by Nazis. But in the 18 months that he has been Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano has outshone his plodding, unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen...