Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pudgy fingers of Adolf Hitler one day last week gave a soft, squashy handshake to this array of luncheon guests: His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria; Dictator Mussolini's sons Bruno and Vittorio; His Royal Highness Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and his youngest sister Maria; Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden...
...intrigue, which won him his Whitehall nickname of "Machiavelli-and-soda." Sir Robert's usual professional touch was evident last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little time in England for her health, and so invited her sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons." At once every chancellory in Europe sprang to the alert...
...last they took the risk of a second downpour and won. No U. S. ladies were presented except those in the diplomatic circle. Among young British curtsy-droppers whose mothers were U. S. born was Miss Virginia Brand. Her mother is the former Phyllis Langhorne of Virginia, a sister of Lady Astor...
...skinny, but my husband is very modest. . . . We couldn't keep the children out of our bedroom all night they were so excited. I had decided to tell them nothing about what their father did because I thought it would prevent their sleeping. But my husband's sister came and told them all about it. They got highly excited. The eldest, Audrey, who is 11, exclaimed, 'How wonderful...
Married. Hélène Kenyon Fortescue, 22, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie Bell (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.) and Julian Louis Reynolds, 26, son of Vice President Richard Samuel Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels); in Washington...