Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he sat in the uproar of the National Assembly in Paris, Pouvanaa Oopa, sole representative of Tahiti and its sister Pacific islands of French Polynesia, was the mildest of men. But back home in peaceful Tahiti, Pouvanaa Oopa became a terror in paradise...
...island of liberal, slightly wacky culture. Mother patronized that daring new thing, the Russian Ballet, and was a talented artist. Once Queen Victoria posed for her briefly. (The duchess had to finish the sketch by rigging out a servant in a pudding-basin and mantilla.) Diana's sister-in-law took some pigs up in an airplane to prove that they could fly. Once in Venice the rich young pixies were visited by an old family friend, dressed him up as a doge and danced around him to celebrate his birthday. He was Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of England...
...heavy iron chain across the Gandolfo Palace entrance, and in Rome the great bronze doors of St. Peter's clanged shut. Attendants removed the flannel pajamas in which the Pope died and dressed the body in a white silk cassock and an ermine-trimmed crimson velvet cape. Sister Pasqualina, the German nun who had been the Pope's devoted housekeeper, had a small ritual of her own. She assembled the Pope's half-dozen pet birds and, carrying their cage and two suitcases, left for an unannounced destination. Her task was done...
Died. Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, 68, sister of Novelist Thomas Wolfe, gently satirized as Eugene Gant's man-tall, tormented sister Helen in Look Homeward, Angel, who at her death was collaborating with Author LeGette Blythe on a book that she claimed would at last set the family record straight; of complications from diabetes; in Asheville...
Died. Maria Dolores de Vilato, 73, sister of prolific Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso; she had been confined to her home for more than 30 years because of a progressive paralysis; in Barcelona, Spain...