Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing the notorious Russian gigolo, Alexander Dvorjanin Zoubkov, who married Wilhelm's eccentric sister, Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe (TIME, Sept. 28), sent to the Chateau at Doom a copy of his outrageous and scurrilous memoirs, inscribed...
Lest the damned bridegroom should trespass into the church itself, it was roped off. But ropes were quickly lowered to facilitate the exit from the Church of a Most Catholic wedding guest, Her Royal Highness, Marguerite de MacMahon, Duchesse de Magenta, nee Princesse d'Orleans, sister of the Pretender to the Throne of France. Apparently the Princess had blundered into the Church, looking for the wedding, which she later attended in the Vestry...
...happened so generally in Japan, especially a generation ago, Noguchi's sister had toiled with their family to get him an education. They saw that he had his private tutors in English, French and German, that he attended the Tokyo Medical College. When he became a doctor (1897) he got an assistantship at the Tokyo General Hospital; and thereafter his way was his own. He always kept an affectionate contact with his family...
Connoisseurs who inspected the Augustus when she docked found her interior decoration rather commonplacely Italian, in Renaissance and various provincial styles. The Augustus has not the vast, gloomy, cathedral splendor of the Roma, her sister ship (in hull dimensions only). The Augustus has not the rampant, modernist decore of the new Saturnia, a rival Italian motor ship of the Cosulich Line...
...tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian brother and sister, the one with a tendency toward acrobatics, the other toward hysterics...