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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice last week General Queipo de Llano was in the news. From Valencia came word that his sister Rosario, a Leftist hostage since immediately after the beginning of the war, had finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 1,000 Miles | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Instead, out stepped newlyweds Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont (TIME, Sept. 20), brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Photographers' bulbs popped all about them. Sighed Mrs. du Pont: "Our honeymoon so far has been nothing but a continuous flash in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Headed for the U. S. is Henry Humloke, son-in-law of the Duke of Devonshire, who acted as stand-in for King George VI at Coronation rehearsals. He will go to Hollywood to seek a movie contract, will live with Dancer Fred Astaire, whose Sister Adele is married to Mrs. Humloke's brother, Lord Charles Cavendish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly out of key, but approved in script form by Gorki before his death in 1936, has Pepel mysteriously out of prison walking hand in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 20, 1937 | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother, sister and cousin are all flyers, and the Fuller planes take up half of a hangar at Mills Field. Californians generally call them "the flying Fullers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Victims & Winners | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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