Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang has a most violently outspoken and un-Christian sister in Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Kuomintang. It was established with money from Moscow, though Founder Sun tried unsuccessfully to borrow elsewhere first. Since Dr. Sun was an unpractical visionary, his death in 1925 greatly advantaged the Kuomintang, enabled such practical leaders as China's present Dictator to turn the memory of Sun into a high-powered political cult, resembling the Communist cult of Lenin. In 1927 practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind...
...widow, who all these years has maintained her Moscow contacts and who is after all the sister-in-law of the Dictator, sounded off at Shanghai thus: "Some of China's political leaders are victims of the fear-of-Japan sickness! . . . Today Japan is incapable of waging a long war because the Japanese people oppose war and their politicians are in revolt against the army. . . . Japan is technically backward and numerically inferior and the decisive factor is that the Chinese people are now ready to fight to a finish...
...Wiener Sängerknaben are one of the oldest Christian choirs still singing, the choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music is one of the newest. The school was founded by a stylish little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan...
...continued to gain about three inches every year. At one time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...
Franzi and Sisi's affair began like a fairy tale. Franz Joseph had been Austria's Emperor since he was 18. Now he was 23, and his managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone...