Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jenny became nursing sister in charge of the health of the 300 evacuees in the village. Some job! Air-raids we may have, but sick and ailing children one has always. So my car is used to fetch and carry them from the doctor and to take her to minister to them in their homes. I, for my sins, find I am representative of the Wives and Families Association of those serving. In peacetimes (Oh long forgotten times!!) I have really nothing to do, but now!! It is a terrible legal job and I have to see landlords, to wage...
Arrival of Minister Bruggmann reminded Washington of the diplomatic marriages of two sisters of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace. Madame Bruggmann was born Mary Wallace in Iowa, fifth in line from Brother Henry, married Karl Bruggmann in one of the most brilliant social events of the Coolidge administration. Next, her little sister Ruth married Swedish Diplomat Per Wijkman, who last week was attached to the Swedish legation in Helsinki. In Washington small, red-headed Madame Bruggmann looked for a house, explained U. S. ways to her two sons, visited old friends...
...British refugee in Germany remained beauteous, Nazi-struck Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, sister-in-law of No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Soon after World War II began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...
...Abraham Flexner, grand old man of U. S. higher education and its severest critic, nine years ago founded the Institute for Advanced Study, where topflight scholars (well subsidized by a $5,000,000 endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week...
...SILENT DUCHESS-Anne Green-Harper ($2.50). Unusually trustworthy times-&-manners fiction about France be fore the Revolution, by the sister of Julian Green. Miss Green's Duchess breaks silence in old age to describe her century with a fine grandmotherly wit, telling her tales about as well as they are told in the sources (Saint-Simon, Voltaire...