Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the Moslem inheritance laws of the sultans, no woman shared in a man's estate. Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five adopted daughters; buy Adopted Daughter and Airwoman Sahiba Gokcen a house; see that the two children of President Ismet Inönü, the ghazi's successor, get the best possible education; support the Society for Promulgation...
...home in London as much as in Belgrade, Prince Paul and his beautiful Grecian-born wife, Princess Olga, occupied the "Belgian suite" of Buckingham Palace. Greeted by his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
...Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
Catherine Spiegler, 45-year-old Czechoslovakian-born stenographer with some knowledge of German, English, Slovakian, and Hungarian writes for her mother, her sister Hedwig, and herself...
Sidley leads him into dissipation, introduces him to wealthy friends, seduces his sister. For several chapters Greene's sister Alice runs away with the story, fights her way back to respectability, grows heroic without ceasing to be an outraged, sharp-tempered, occasionally foolish female...