Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head on and killed Douglas George Hopkins, the sporting secretary of the Frazer-Nash Car Club, who was driving with his sister Sheila and her friend Rosemary Reynolds. A constable verified from the wheel tracks the impression of all concerned that Lord de Clifford was not driving on his side of the road and a coroner's jury demanded his indictment for manslaughter, which in Great Britain...
...winter of his 70 years King George received last week from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin these philosophic observations: "It is an inescapable fact of humanity, if life be prolonged, that one by one is taken away-brother or sister-one who shares those common memories of childhood, the home, and whose loss nothing in this world can replace. As we get older it is inevitable that the loneliness that so often comes with age must increase; and it must be a solemn day when the last one is taken from us to whom we could say, 'Do you remember...
...sympathetic Squire Baldwin's bumbling way of conveying to His Majesty an expression of the Cabinet's grief on learning that not even Lord Dawson of Penn, who saved George V's life seven years ago, had been able to save the King's elder sister, H. R. H. Princess Victoria, who died last week (TIME...
Favorite grandchild and namesake of Queen Victoria, the princess had been known all her life in the Royal Family as "Toria," suffered incessantly from various complaints, and had never married because, in the Victorian phrase, "her beloved was of less than royal station." King George called her his "sweetest sister." She gravely and dutifully aided that merry monarch Edward VII as his personal secretary until his death. Then, with her beautiful and imperious mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra, she passed into even more dutiful retirement, became "Alexandra's shadow." Not until she was 57 did Princess Victoria ever have...
...been out of work for nine years. He spent my $500 savings on booze. Then he came home and robbed the baby's bank. I don't want him, judge. He won't lay off it." Sentence: three months. When Frank Fenlon asked for clemency, his sister vetoed it. Sentence: 110 days...