Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...
...week, Queen Elizabeth asked Parliament to get to work on a new Civil List. Queenly and ladylike, she mentioned no figures, left the details to Parliament after merely hinting that her husband might need more than the ?10,000 ($28,000) a year he now gets and that her sister Princess Margaret might one day be married. A committee of 22 members from all parties was set up in the House of Commons to consider the Queen's request and draw up the list. One name which would not appear on it: the Duke of Windsor, whose present allowance...
...Dutch tulips. The occasion was the opening of the new Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, a 45-mile short cut across The Netherlands that will bring Amsterdam's river traffic 25 miles and 20 hours closer to Germany. In the age-old competition for the rich river traffic, the sister port of Rotterdam, sitting near the North Sea, has always had the advantage. Now, with the opening of the largest inland navigation lock in Europe, and the completion of the canal which was first planned back in 1915, Amsterdam hopes to double its 23 million tons of shipping in the river...
...ximo Guillermo Mantel, they would all be freed through presidential mercy. A search of Mantel's house, said Borlenghi, had turned up a diary with an entry under July 4 which read: "Independence day of the United States. The most glorious of all days. Our big sister." Thundered Borlenghi: "This proves that this episode was directed from abroad!" Diarist Mantel will be brought to court for his indiscreet sentiments...
...mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took it himself and lived almost 90 years. Mary, his sister, smoked chewing tobacco in a clay pipe, let a pet black snake have the run of her house, and outlived two husbands. When, in the hospital, her nurses took away her pipe and 'baccy, she begged a cigar from one of her visitors, broke it up and used...