Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stella Dallas (Samuel Goldwyn) exhibits an aspect of class struggle which has recently been overlooked: the aspect of simple social climbing. Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) is the daughter of one millworker and the sister of another but when an eccentric Harvard socialite comes to Millhampton and goes to work in his shirt sleeves, she sees a chance for advancement. Soon Stella and Stephen Dallas (John Boles) are married and the parents of a dimpled baby girl, whom they name Laurel...
...Peiping, a swift kick by a Japanese sentry found its mark last week in the stomach of attractive Miss Carol Lathrop, 18 (see cut), sister-in-law of a U. S. Marine captain stationed in North China. Weeping, but not greatly injured, Miss Lathrop then got a kick in the side, and a Mrs. Jones with whom she had been out for a stroll, received a powerful kick in the behind from another Japanese sentry. Vigorous protests by U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson T. Johnson were unavailing last week as Japanese officials maintained there had been "no violence." Sniffed...
...propertied Mr. Hearst had long wondered what to do about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made the butt of "Cissy" Patterson's front-page chatter...
...estate of Mrs. William B. Cogswell, widow of a rich Rensselaer alumnus who pioneered the Belgian Solvay chemical processes (soda products, coke) in the U. S., helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting of 12,966 shares of Allied Chemical and cash, each fund worth about $2,940,000. When...
...whole House of Hanover, blacker than the ink that tells about them. Hero of the story, an Anthony Adverse type of character, is Christopher Harnish, whose sinister connection with Hanoverian royalty is first dangled before the reader on page 112, when it is discovered that his mother, a sister of George IV, secretly married her brother's illegitimate...