Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stiff-necked Back Bay society learned that Sally Clark, 18, younger sister of Mrs John Aspinwall Roosevelt, had walked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton, posed for pictures, then announced that she would this week make her debut not as a socialite but as a professional songstress on the Ritz's roof garden. Salary: $150 the first week, $200 the second, $250 thereafter. "I am not thinking of Hollywood," said she, last week, "I imagine that from time to time I shall see all my friends. But I am most interested in singing to the public...
This neighborhood is the stamping ground of Alfred Cohen. Alfred is a small, blond, wiry eight-year-old boy who lives with his parents and an older brother and sister on the fifth floor of a walk-up apartment house. Directly across the street is Bronx House, where there is a dance every Wednesday night, where the dramatic club occasionally puts on shows like H.M.S. Pinafore, where the free art class of the Federal Art Project meets daily...
...merchants and lawyers. Their Benjamin was the second Jew appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York's Governor) at Port Chester, N. Y. On his last day there, flowers came from two other old friends: Franklin...
Died. Evelina du Pont, 98, sister of the late U. S. Senator Henry Algernon du Pont; of old age; in Greenville...
When he was growing wealthy and in danger of arrest, she tried to burn his incriminating papers, failed, and watched him go to prison. For the seven years that he was there, frightened Julie rebounded between the stuffy, self-righteous world of her sister, and the rebellious, desperate, exciting world to which Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with...