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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is everything else. Two or three of the acts are very good: Walter Nilsson cavorting madly on a monocycle, Hal Sherman pantomimes dancing adroitly while looking as awkward as Charlie Chaplin. But most of the acts are very bad: all the skits, a Turkish harem number, a roguish sister act performed by two girls each of whom looks like the other's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Almost unnoticed, while the world watched Neville Chamberlain come home from having a dish of tea with Adolf Hitler (see p. 15), the Prime Minister's half sister-in-law Lady Chamberlain came home last week from having dishes and dishes of tea with Señora Carmen Franco and the Rightist Generalissimo. She was instantly denounced by Leftists of all shades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady C. and Peace | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister's sister-in-law explained unperturbed, "In our Barcelona canteen we are feeding 4,000 people every day. Our fund is expending 312 pounds ($1,500) per month on each side in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady C. and Peace | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

This theme will run through a series of full-page ads, starting in November, in the Druggist's big sister, Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (circulation: 1,850,000), with an added plug for important Druggist customers like Absorbine, Jr. Fletcher's Castoria, Seiberling's Dry-wear Latex Baby Pants. Only cost to them will be $10 worth of products a month as prizes in a window-display contest. Text is being prepared free by eight leading advertising agencies. "Cooper-ating" editorials will be released each month in 20 Hearst daily newspapers (combined circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guinea Pigs' Friends | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Llewellyn Park. N. J.. Mrs. John Eyre Sloane, daughter (Madeleine) of the late great Thomas Alva Edison, sister of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, announced herself a Republican candidate for nomination to a seat in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conservative Party | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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