Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in the week the Queen sent to Parliament a message that was closer to her heart. It was a change in the Regency Act to make her husband, Philip, regent (in place of her sister, Margaret), in case the Queen should die before her son, Prince Charles, reaches maturity (18 for a British ruler). Some backbenchers grumbled at making a regent of someone who is not in the immediate line of succession, but her proposal is "agreed legislation," meaning that it has been approved by the major parties beforehand...
...slapstick skit on her Manhattan TV show, Comedienne Martha Raye tried to pass herself off as another Gabor sister, but found that her resemblance to glamorous Magda, Eva and Zsa Zsa overstrained the family...
...children for him. Bots had Puss in Boots Number Two an' Suck Me Toe, an' Bambina had three. Sugar Shine, Turtle Dove, an' Stumps. An' Bots an' Bambina wus the best of friends, an' the children who wus half brother an' half sister live like real brother and sister without any talk 'bout half or quarter. They live real splendid together, an' so did they mothers ... in the same sort of feelin' of you belong to me an' I belong to you. An' it went on like that...
This professorial Never-Never-land was founded in 1930 by a gift of Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld. The exact amount of the Institute's endowment is not public information, but it was not inconsiderable. The Institute several years ago voted half-a-million dollars to Princeton's Firestone Library, in return for use of the library by Institute members...
...Minute Women, founded in 1949 in Norwalk, Conn., and spearheaded by a Belgian-born sculptress, Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson (sister of Belgium's Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys), had one of its biggest and most active chapters in Houston. The Minute Women insisted that they did not act as a group, rather as "individuals." When they first saw Newsman O'Leary, they tape-recorded the interview, and one ex-member even demanded that an FBI man be present for another interview. O'Leary was asked: "We're 100% pro-American. Are you?" Much of their work was done...