Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nora's prediction of social acceptance comes true but Frieda's true feelings still are not evident and only become so when her brother, an-unrecalcitrant Nazi, appears on the scene. His fanatical sentiments for a united German people and a repetition of the last war "again, and again, and again" are rejected by her along with the swastika medallion he presses into her palm. That is why she tries to commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot...
...Donnell, who is 23, is two years younger than his brother Cleo, popular offensive spark of the 1942 team and captain of the 1946 eleven. Their father, also Cleo O'Donnell, was head coach for two decades and later athletic director at Holy Cross. Prior to this, he was a famous Everett High School mentor from 1912 to 1918 and coached Purdue for two seasons...
...group that is severely split before it ever arrives in Cambridge. The need of a Massachusetts prop school graduate for a capable adviser will not parallel the need of a student from a small town in Kansas. The prep school product is likely to have a friend or a brother already at Harvard with whom he can consult on academic and other activities. The midwesterner will probably be entering a new and alien society, without personal contacts or previous experience to aid him in adjusting. The impact of an impersonal adviser on these two men will have widely divergent results...
...deal was a sign that a new generation of Ridders was coming along nicely. Three months ago, when New York University Economist Jules Bogen left the editor's chair at the New York Journal of Commerce, Bernard J. Ridder took over at the Journal. Now Bernard and his brother Eric, two of Founding Father Herman Ridder's eight grandsons, will go on the board of the Chicago Journal...
...unfaithful wife murders her husband, just home from the war, whereupon her daughter, who has always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...