Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out later, this was more impishness. Lord Beaverbrook still closely supervises the Daily Express and its sister papers, the Sunday Express (1,500,000) and Evening Standard (400,000), although his office ranges halfway round the world...
Died. Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria, Queen of Norway, 69, sister of Great Britain's late King George V, last surviving child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...
Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...
Lowell, Adams, and Eliot House football teams will journey to New Haven tomorrow for three post-season games with their "sister" Yale colleges, thus beginning a furious weekend of Yale-Harvard football clashes. The Bellboys take on Pierson, Adams plays Saybrook, and Eliot meets Jonathan Edwards. All games begin at 3 o'clock...
...Colonel Edward H. R. ("Ned") Green, son of fabulous old Miser Hetty Green, died at 67 in Lake Placid, N. Y. two Junes ago, the U. S. Government collected taxes of $17,520,987 on his $36,137,335 net estate. Four States-as well as his wife and sister-also commenced a fearsome tangle of litigation for their shares (TIME, April...