Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner truly grand. For 75 years they have talked of a ''world's greatest" monument (in the form of a memorial lighthouse), finally got the backing of the Pan American Conference of 1923, a design, support of the League of Nations and "sympathy" of most sister republics in the New World. To publicize the project and to get this sympathy backed by the $5,000,000 hard cash necessary for its completion, the Dominican Government last spring, before it fell to warring with Haiti, announced a "Goodwill Flight'' to 52 cities in 26 countries from...
...urbane rector of the Little Church, appeared pleased at the chance to officiate for a "lady evangelist." Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Langkop went to Old John Street Methodist Church, in downtown Manhattan, where she slipped on a black robe, assisted at the wedding of her 21-year-old sister Ovella to Robert P. Long, who had been publicity director at the revival meetings Miss Utley conducted during Chicagp's Century of Progress exposition...
...Callender, for example, painfully overdoes the part of the minister. Of course, it might be pleaded that the acting within the acting should not be perfect, lost it cease to be acting. Russell Fillmore and Isabel Withers are good enough as the dim-witted, ineffectual brother-in-law and sister of the heroine. But good or bad, none of the supporting cast matters much. As the revelation or re-introduction of the racy personality of Miss Greenwood, the entire performance is mildly refreshing
Meanwhile, survivors of the Panay reached Shanghai on her sister ship the Oahu, bringing with them a story backed by newsreel photographs that brought the entire crisis to an even sharper peak...
...suit for $502,539 damages against Western Air Express Corp. and others for having deprived her of 20 future years' support when her husband, Jungle-Explorer Martin Elmer Johnson died following last January's air crash near Burbank, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25). Among defendants she named her sister-in-law, Frieda Johnson Cripts, in a legal move to find out what claims if any Mrs. Cripts has on the explorer's estate...