Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centre of this solemn group was a pinkish-brown princess, recently born to their Imperial Majesties of Japan (TIME, Sept. 19). Her only sister, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya, 21 months, steadied and restrained by a nurse's hand, gazed wonderingly on as the newest Imperial baby, yelping, was put into a ceremonial bath...
...Empress Nagako of Japan was born a sister to her first child, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya. Once again the Imperial Stork had failed to heed the gods of Shintoism and the great call of the great Lord Buddha for a son and heir to the august Imperial throne...
Married. Charles Brandon Booth, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, National Field Secretary of the Big Brother & Sister Movement in America; to Miss Betsy Ross, charity worker; at Webster...
Such Is Life. The iron, generally, has been driven into the soul of young playwrights who label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness...
Alfredo Calles, 13, six feet tall, son of President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, visited his sister, Mrs. Thomas Arnold (Ernestina) Robinson, in Manhattan, on his way to New York Military School. When newsgatherers called to see him, he locked himself in the bathroom. Mrs. Robinson sighed: "He is such a rebel!" Mrs. Robinson told how Alfredo disliked automobiles, wanted to see a snowstorm, was fascinated by the subway...