Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramon Betances and Jose de Diego were 19th century Puerto Rican patriots who demanded that Spain free their country. *One, Doris Torresola, is the sister of Terrorist Griselio Torresola, who was shot and killed behind a hedge near Blair House during the attempt to assassinate President Truman...
...What's become of your lover?" she asks Pierre's sister...
Author Williams introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...cleaning emporium on the site of the old home and a continual shortage of money--the women, with $150,000 in aid from the men completed the shrine in 1922. The house itself is a replica of the old one, constructed, with the advice of Roosevelt's younger sister Corinne, complete down to wallpaper, draperies, and furniture as it had been. A neighboring building housed the library from 1922 until its removal to Widener...
...established when Sammons joined the firm in 1926. At that time Marquis was in his 70s. Five years later Sammons took over entirely, and made it a family affair (Founder Marquis became "editor emeritus." died in 1943). Editor Sammons' wife Dorothy. 66. is the obituary expert for the sister book, Who Was Who in America, a listing of the famous dead, while his son Wheeler Jr., 39, and daughter Betty, 31, are in the research department which decides who gets into...