Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King George and in the earl's house Carol II was styled officially a "guest of King Edward VIII," the explanation being offered that other...
Meanwhile famed and lionized Mr. Kipling had married very simply the sister of a literary friend. She was of Vermont, and her name was Caroline Starr Balestier. In Vermont, ignoring the advice of well-wishers who desired them to build "an ordinary mortgageable house" they erected what is still the wonder of the countryside and quite reprehensible from a mortgage company's point of view-a house so extraordinary that all its rooms are on the side having the best view, with hallways on the other side. In this house two of the Kipling children were born...
...when she was given the part of the free-&- easy young woman's mother. The role is that of a Southern matron whose brain is as frivolous as her dress. It is superbly written, and Texan Douglass projects it magnificently. "Ah always was willowy," she reminds her sister, at a time when the chief topic of interest is her daughter's disappearance. "Every time Ah go downtown in Louis ville somebody says : 'There goes Mrs. Effie Rowley. Isn't she willowy!'" She is frightened only by Indians (one of whom she suggests lynching), wrinkles...
Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana...
...abler musician than most opera singers, she has a mother who now dabbles in concert management in New York, a sister who teaches singing, a husband, Frank Chapman Jr., son of the American Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman...