Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave him. Next day he presented himself in the President's study and was sworn in on two verses from Isaias...
...reputedly scared the British Government out of sticking up for Czechoslovakia. The "Cliveden Set" became a synonym for a sort of Fifth Column working on behalf of Germany behind the back of the British Government. Last week the Hostess of Cliveden did her best to convince a Manhattan sob sister that this conception was all wrong...
...made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange sister for brothers whose financial transactions and marriages made sensational copy for Hearst's Sunday papers, six was so busy and so devoted to her father that she did not find time to make her debut till...
Published letters and diaries, even if scandalous, create scandal for only a few years. Burned (like Byron's letters to his sister, Richard Burton's diaries), they scandalize a writer's name for good. Expurgated (like Pepys's diaries, Horace Walpole's letters), they start gossip which endures as long as the suppressed letters and diaries remain locked in bank vaults. After 50, 100, 150 years their outmoded revelations seem singularly innocent...
Married. Gloria Baker, 19, No. 1 café-society glamor girl of 1937*. half-sister of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heiress to $10,000,000 (Bromo-Seltzer); and Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr., 24, Manhattan socialite and heir to $9,000,000 (tin-plate); in Palm Beach. A few days previously Topping was divorced by his first wife, Glamor Girl Jayne Dunham Shadduck Kirkland Topping, who got a settlement reputed...