Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope, that Congress would pass at the next session an appropriation which would make it possible for the Government to bring home every American soldier now buried in French soil!" General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, quietly informed newsgatherers who sought him at his sister's house in Lincoln, Neb., last week that during his recent stay of two months in Europe he neither saw nor heard of any insults written on the white crosses over the graves of U. S. soldiers...
...part of the rocky, sandy peninsula. His frequent nuptials (not counting concubinations) were usually preceded by revelations, which only one of the wives, irreverent young Ayesha, ever presumed to suspect. He consoled a dying wife with the assurance that his arrival in heaven was eagerly awaited by Moses' sister (Kulthum), Potiphar's wife and the Virgin Mary...
...three sides around a court, with the open side facing the Charles. But unlike these two, McKinlock's wings are not built at right angles to the main part, but slant out a greater angle. Instead of the usual dining room that is a feature of the other three sister halls, the new building has no dining room of its own, but has, instead, a large library, reserved exclusively for the entering class, and in which all books needed incourses regularly open to Freshmen will be found...
Maria Guglielmi, sister of the late Rudolph Valentino: "My brother left an estate of more than $1,000,000 which will be divided equally between myself, my other brother, Alberto, who is now in Hollywood, and the aunt of Winifred Shaughnessy Hudnut, Mrs. Teresa Werner, who took such motherly care of Rudolph after Winifred had divorced him last year. Winifred (also known professionally as Natacha Rambova) was bequeathed the sum of $1. The bulk of Rudolph's estate will come from his earnings in his last two films, The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik. However, there...
...whole zone of twilight, where unicorns browsed and cabbage-roots were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood to learn the making of gold for his sister's dowry; of how this lad, one Ramon Alonzo, did not rest until he had rummaged through the magician's spellbound shadow-box and found that which ends the story as all fairy tales should end. There is a certain philosophy of shadows woven through the pages...