Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires also had a set of quadruplets last week, but all of them died. * The heaviest twin ever recorded arrived recently in Birmingham, England. He weighed 10 lb. 14 oz. His nonidentical brother weighed 8 lb. 4 oz. * For news of Papa Dionne, see page...
...beauty of the Romanist ritual with certain other ingredients: the good taste and the ability of the Unitarians and Episcopalians-a trait not too common to some of the evangelical groups-to mind their own business. I'm proud that I never set myself up to be my brother's keeper, having been sufficiently occupied by the job of being my own keeper. To these add the noble ethics and the splendid tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence and the good business principles of the Mormons; the gentle humility and ordered humanity of the Quakers...
...brother Joe Stalin, our present beloved ally and, secretly, the everlasting enemy of our institutions, the job would be easier. He already has the whiskers. (One advantage of dying is that it affords a fellow opportunity to say a lot of things that have been curdling in his system all these years. Frankly. I'm enjoying myself...
Like a score of similar Southern novels, the book is a story of racial conflict in a small Southern town (called Maxwell, Ga.), in which the dramatic action is the love affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have...
...moment when he was fighting the unions and the war's end had tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese moppets in revolutionary Hu-chow, just as the Chinese revolution was reaching the boiling point...