Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holmes as a ladies' man: "At Haldane's on Sunday his sister said that she remembered you most perfectly in the 'nineties as the most perfect flirt in London. It was all, she said, in a way you had of cocking your eye that they found quite ravishing...
...immediate family" was summoned -that apparently included son Vasily, 32, lieutenant general of the air force, and daughter Svetlana, 30. No mention was made of Stalin's third wife, Roza, sister of his longtime comrade Lazar Kaganovich. The gasping old man never awoke to say goodbye. At 9:50 o'clock that night, as a wintry wind howled past Kremlin battlements built by the Czars, he died...
...bothersome colds, 85-year-old Dowager Queen Mary was again confined to her bed in Marlborough House. This time it was a stomach ailment. Nothing serious, said the royal physicians, but it had hung on longer than it should. Nevertheless, from Manhattan, the Duke of Windsor and his visiting sister, the Princess Royal, were summoned to her bedside in London...
...boys' Jewish parents, however, had relatives, and they wanted Robert and Gerald as badly as Mile. Brun did. First, a sister of Dr. Finaly's wrote from New Zealand, asking that the children be sent to her. Then, in 1949, a mandate from the Finaly kin was presented in a French court. It asked that the boys be sent to another aunt, Mme. Hedwige Ressner, now living in Israel...
Black Sheep. In Manhattan, Solomon Bauman, 73, picked up on a pickpocket charge, pleaded with the court not to tell his sister: "It would kill her. She thinks I'm a gambler...