Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play bridge three nights a week yet." says Judge Davies, "and all night if you'd stay with her"). Ronald delivered 125 copies of the daily Crookston Times for $1.50 a week, had his knuckles regularly rapped with a ruler in parochial school by a Sister Milburga. "God love her, she's gone," says Judge Davies. "I remember her very well. Instead of holding your palm up, you'd hold it down and you'd get it across the knuckles. I want you to know that hurt. It was something less than pleasant." Davies' grandfather...
...Albanian rulers of Egypt and overlords of the Ottoman Empire did little else to benefit mankind, they were identified with some of the most beautiful women in the world. Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's fat Farouk and onetime Empress of Iran, was one. Dark-eyed Princess Zehra Hanzade, granddaughter of Turkey's last Sultan and mother of Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen...
...Municipal Theater in Tulsa for joint concerts next month, as Oklahoma celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood, were four internationally famed ballerinas, Qklahomans all, and all of Indian descent: Rosella Hightower of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, Marjorie Tallchief of the Paris Opéra Ballet, her sister Maria Tallchief of the New York City Ballet, and Yvonne Chouteau of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...crow to his readers. A research chemist who earned degrees from Yale, Harvard and Columbia before taking over following the death of Paul Block Sr. in 1941, dark-haired, retiring Paul Block, 46, dispassionately analyzed Toledo's "evil hoax" both in the evening Blade and its sister paper, the stodgy morning Times (41,841), which had also avoided the racial tag but stirred few complaints. (The Block-owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is published by younger brother William, has the same racial policy...
...particular about his shop hours; he doesn't like to unlock before noon. "There isn't much happening around here in the morning. I used to open up quite a bit in the morning, but the only person who came to see me then was T. S. Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens...