Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Organizer of the sportswriters working for the track: Hearst's Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan, who doubled as Rockingham's pressagent at more than $5,000 a year. It was Egan who had arranged for the reporters, including six other staffers of the morning Record and its sister afternoon paper, the American, to be paid by the track...
...NAVY program, small (15,400 students in 52 colleges, 387 officer-instructors) but expensive ($11.4 million), is the envy of sister services. The Navy annually gives some 2,000 hand-picked high-school seniors free college tuition plus $50 a month for four years. Under the plan, students must take the four-year N.R.O.T.C. course as part of their academic work, spend three summers on training cruises, three post-college years on active duty as Navy officers. The 600-hour course is tightly organized, highly technical (navigation, gunnery, ship's machinery), and limits nonvocational training to 48 hours...
...That Oppenheimer before his marriage was in love with one Communist woman and that he married a former Communist, and that his brother and sister-in-law were Communists. Said the Nichols letter: "It was reported that in 1943 and previously you were intimately associated with Dr. Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party in San Francisco ... It was reported that your wife was formerly the wife of Joseph Dallet, a member of the Communist Party who was killed in Spain in 1937 ... It was further reported that during the period of her association with Joseph Dallet, your wife...
Unlike her sister in New York, who drinks her Martinis extra dry and has learned to be bored at the Stork long before her debut, London's deb bursts forth on the social scene relatively unaware. Her dancing has been largely confined to boarding-school socials, her standard tipple tomato juice laced with Worcestershire sauce. Her debut is genuine and to meet it she must first get on a "list...
Democratic King. Louis was 18 when Madame de Beauvais. one of his mother's ladies in waiting, waylaid him as he was coming from his bath, and seduced him. After that, Louis was insatiable. According to his sister-in-law, "all women, peasants, chambermaids, servants' daughters, women of quality" had only to pretend they loved him to be received in the royal bed. His Queen. Marie Therese, had to compete with a succession of mistresses and hordes of passing amourettes until she died. Six months later. Louis' mistress, Madame de Maintenon. became his wife...