Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Marion Houghton Hepburn, sister of Actress Katharine Hepburn (see p. 40); and Ellsworth Strong Grant; in West Hartford, Conn. Among the bridesmaids: Sister Katharine...
...Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 33, a member of TIME Inc.'s London staff, son of the late famed Austrian librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier); and Lady Elizabeth Paget, 22, trainbearer to Queen Elizabeth at her coronation; his second (first wife: Vincent Astor's sister, Alice); in London...
When Dorothy Thompson was about ten her stepmother used to call her and her younger brother and sister into the parlor and make them bow and curtsey to visitors. One day Dorothy came in doing a cartwheel, displaying her panties to six ladies of the Methodist Church. That habit has persisted and is one reason why mercurial Miss Thompson will never be the first woman President, although she and Eleanor Roosevelt are undoubtedly the most influential women...
...somebody's descendants sometimes ask Anthony Richard Wagner, 30, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms (heraldic symbol-chaser) of the British royal household, to trace their British ancestry. Last week he announced a timely kinship: "Mr. Chamberlain and President Roosevelt are eighth cousins twice removed . . . descendants of a brother and sister of the early 17th Century. The brother came to America and the sister remained in England. The family where they join is the Cotymores, a Welsh family...
...youngest son in a family of 21 children, shy, shrinking, nearsighted, epileptic Edward Lear was coddled by a sister 21 years older, who never let him attend school. As a young man his painstakingly realistic illustrations of a book on parrots got him a job sketching the private menagerie of the Earl of Derby. His first meals were taken with the Earl's steward, but Lear's charm and humor soon won him a chair in the dining room...