Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mildly irritating at times even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...
Long a friend of Adolf Hitler, troublesome Unity recently announced she would become a naturalized German citizen. She was hoarse-voiced cheering the Führer's entry to Vienna. She and her blonde, pro-German elder sister, the former Mrs. Bryan W. Guinness, few months ago were toasted by Field Marshal Goring as "with Frau Goring the most perfect Aryan women I have ever seen...
...profitable job in her father's bank, and his own desire to stop making money and take a holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight of a hero and heroine whose chief problem was the prospect of having too much money, it would seem impossible to do so ten years later. Surprise...
...ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda relates, as her most embarrassing moment, being arrested for helping to lead a strike against a company in which Seton Sr. is a director. When she has to correct her father for failing to catch her sister's nance's name, she says: "It's Case, not Chase, father-too bad, Chase had such a pleasant banking sound...
Engaged. Gloria Braggiotti, fashion columnist (sister of Pianist Mario Braggiotti, Actor Stiano Braggiotti, Socialite Mrs. John Davis Lodge); to Emlen Pope Etting, painter; in Manhattan...