Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play of the old conflict of destruction versus creation with their usual symbols, a man and a woman...
Belligerently in Buckingham Palace the heiress to the Throne, strong-willed little Princess Elizabeth, bothered the King & Queen at this juncture in World affairs by insisting that she and her little sister Princess Margaret Rose be permitted to ride with Their Majesties in the glittering State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week. Their Majesties had resolved that their little daughters shall not be "spoiled" by too much public acclaim. Princess Elizabeth lost her battle at the last moment and she and her sister rode to the opening in the coach of Lady Helen Graham, which followed the royal...
...Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg and of German society be invited to meet the Duchess, and would the Head of the House treat her as having the rank of Royal Highness-a rank King George VI has not yet bestowed on his American sister-in-law. Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg steered a middle course. He gave a dinner of 18 covers. Seventeen of those at the table were men. The 18th place card read "Ihre Koenig-liche Hoheit der Herzogin von Windsor" -Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Windsor...
...night last week applause greeted Wrestler Leo Mortensen of Glendale, Calif. - also known as "Milo the Strong Man" - as he skillfully pinned the shoul ders of one Gene Bowman to the mat. A few minutes later a much stronger burst of applause greeted Wrestler Mortensen's sturdy sister Clara as, clad in a uniform which resembled a two-piece bathing suit, she climbed into the ring for a feature match with chunky Maria Gardini. After one fall apiece, Wrestler Mortensen, only moderately flushed by her exertions, suddenly lifted Wrestler Gardini over her head, spun her around a few times...
Billed as "champion" since she threw Topeka's Barbara Ware in 1932, Sister Mortensen wrestles three or four times a week, has netted $37,000 since her present tour began four months ago. Showmanship of her manager, Bill Lewis, is such that he grew a set of silky black whiskers in order to name himself "Bluebeard...