Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendly warmth by an Englishman, the Duke of Windsor. Later the Crown Princess was escorted by her Prince Consort to some of Vienna's mellow evening taverns, danced and sipped sour wine in one until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when one of Windsor's telegrams to London was secured and Austrian papers scare-headed that he had "ordered sent out from England the magnificent white horse on which...
...flopping, broad-brimmed black hat and four books of his verse (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems, The Shoes of Happiness, Eighty Songs at Eighty), hoary Poet Edwin Markham, 84, hobbled feebly into a Brooklyn court whither he had been summoned on petition of his sister...
...Catherine Littlefield plotted the choreography. Alexis Dolinoff danced the lead. When the Philadelphia Ballet ran short of men a year ago, Catherine Littlefield signed up her air-pilot brother, Carl. Last week he made a graceful Prince-from-the-West, easily outstripped the other minor characters. Another Littlefield, young sister Dorothie, also filled in ably...
...story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert, an amateur boxer, marries...
...murdering a woman who died of an overdose of sedative, Dr. Jones (Warren William) is disgraced, forced to retire to a small town where his name is unknown and where he can begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little boy becomes seriously ill. When...