Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chile announced that submarines as well as surface warcraft could find haven in her ports. Off Brazil, well within the unbuckled "safety belt" projected by the U. S. and her sister republics three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 9), British and French cruisers last week continued to look out for German or contraband shipping...
...played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were negligible, but he was a good politician and his wife was the sister of Joseph Bonaparte's wife. With these advantages, the Emperor made him a marshal and later Prince of Ponte Corvo...
Knitting became the acceptable conversational topic at Mayfair dinner tables, even male ARPers knitting to pass the time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...
Died. Contessa Maria Ciano Magistrati, 33, sister of Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano; in Rome...
...rounded up some wartime Catholic views. Eric Gill, scraggle-bearded author-artist who wears a monk's gown, urged a quick peace, arguing that the Allied war aims are: continuation of Versailles policies, contraceptive control of the German population, making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will not be achieved by this...