Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable of a phonograph, giving different optical illusions. Chess playing for a while kept Duchamp from...
Married. Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, spiritualist son of the late Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and Mrs. Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced last May from Manhattan Lawyer Charles Henry Huberich; in Bridgend, Wales...
Married. Mrs. Lita Annenberg Howard, 26, daughter of Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg of Daily Racing Form, Miami Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer (TIME, Aug. 10); and Manhattan Lawyer Joseph Harrington Hazen, 38, assistant to Cinemagnate Harry Morris Warner; at Great Neck, N. Y. Simultaneously wed were her sister, Mrs. Enid Annenberg Bensinger, 29, and Ira Haupt, 47, Manhattan stockbroker...
...town that had passed its prime and was already peopled with eccentric oldsters, leftovers of Puritan days. He was also growing up in an eccentric household: his mother went to her room when she heard of her husband's death, and stayed there for 40 years; his sister left the house only at nightfall; the family meals were left outside the door of each member's room. There Hawthorne was writing stories that grew "as mushrooms grow in a meadow, where the roots of some old tree are buried under the earth." When they won him the attention...
Left. By the late Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, whose mother, miserly Hetty Green, specified in her will that the family fortune remain intact; to his sister, Mrs. Sylvia Green Wilks, an estate estimated at $80,000,000; in Port Henry, N. Y. Mrs. Mabel Harlow Green got nothing, but was made administrator of the fortune by a Texas judge. Claimed last week by officials of New York, Massachusetts, Texas and the U. S. were $65,000,000 in inheritance taxes...