Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammond had with her in Johannesburg Mr. Hammond's sister and her little boy Jackie* (her second son) aged eight. The preliminary trial of the Reform Committee soon began "for high treason" but about that time Mr. Hammond fell ill with dysentery. Mrs. Hammond got him out of jail under guard, nursed him herself. Finally under $100,000 bail he was allowed to leave the country and go to Cape Town...
...adoption of orphan twins by two worthy bachelors is the axis of the evening. Two worthy young women marry the bachelors in the end and the twins are disposed of to their Irish father in Denver. There bustles through the entertainment a fussy and magnificently maidenly sister of one of the bachelors, to whose share falls much of the comedy. This part, played by Laura Hope Crews, was easily the most eventful. Ernest Truex did pretty well as the more cowardly of the adoptive bachelors...
Then, after boosting TIME as a good paper for boys and girls to read, you dig up an old ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...
...Fascist Government thus guarded the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, Lord Ashbourne, because she is known to have been insane since childhood and it was feared that she might attempt suicide, as she did last year in a moment of religious excitement...
Meanwhile Miss Gibson's large deposits at an English bank in Rome were sequestered according to Italian law. Late in the week Lord Ashbourne arrived at Rome from Dublin, and retained Deputy Enrico Ferri, "the Italian Clarence Darrow," to defend his sister...