Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Mamie, her mother Elivera Doud and her sister Frances ("Mike") Moore gushed over Martha Washington (Mechlin lace shawl and pink faille dress hand-painted with native North American flowers and insects), Ike went by the Blue Room (as it was in McKinley's time) and the Red Room (Coolidge era). At the end, he impatiently chewed his upper lip and, to hurry his ladyfolk along, called, "Say, come look at Mamie...
...born on a 170-acre farm three miles southeast of Boulder, Colo, and 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean, of Swedish and Pennsylvania Dutch stock (his grandfather changed his name from Bjorkegren). The eldest of six children, Arleigh found his life was paced by farm chores. A sister remembers: "When he was four years old, he was out in the fields leading the stacking horse" when the hay was harvested. In an essay on military training, written in grade school, young Burke said: "This training teaches one of the greatest problems of success: discipline . . . War methods change...
Goodie's boyhood was spent in substantial middle-class ease. His father indulged Goodie and his older sister Dolly, but Lil Knight, an ambitious, talented woman (she was variously a concert singer and a suffragette), preached total abstinence to her children and made free with the peachtree switch she kept in the kitchen...
...week is a permanent fixture in Bad Bertrich. This year's festival gets under way next month with music by Righini and Kraus, plus Mozart, Haydn and Schumann. It will be played in the castle's candlelit hall, dominated by portraits of the Prince-Bishop and his sister Kunigunde. Officials are hoping for close to 10,000 visitors...
Honorable mention went to Allen R. Grossman '55 of Eliot House and Minneapolis for four poems which appeared in various issues of the Advocate throughout the year, and to Cynthia M. Rich '56 of Moors Hall and Baltimore for "My Sister's Marriage," a story published in the December Advocate...