pro rata cancellation. The cancellation of an insurance policy or bond with the return of unearned premium credit being the full proportion of premium for the unexpired term of the policy or bond, without penalty for interim cancellation. See also Short-rate cancellation; Cancellation; Flat cancellation.
Yet this is how the actress Isabella Rossellini, 53, has chosen to celebrate the memory of Roberto Rossellini, the Italian film director, who died in June 1977. Not surprisingly, she has fallen out with her twin sister as a result. A furious Isotta Rossellini, named after their mother, Ingrid Bergman, the Casablanca star - Isotta is Italian for Ingrid - has dismissed Isabella's 17-minute avant-garde film, My Dad is 100 Years Old, as inappropriate and offensive. It is very hurtful.
Betsy Ross: An Early American Life. Elizabeth Griscom was born on January 1, 1752, in the bustling colonial city of Philadelphia. She was the eighth of 17 children. Her parents, Rebecca James Griscom and Samuel Griscom were both Quakers. The daughter of generations of craftsman (her father was a house carpenter), young Betsy attended a Quaker school and was then apprenticed to William Webster, an upholsterer.