Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, brother of Adrian, announced in Los Angeles that he would soon return to England, stand for election to Parliament. A spiritualist like his father, Denis also made his periodical report that he.was still chatting with Sir Arthur from time to time...
Link is made to feel almost like one of the family. Pop (Victor Moore), an after-the-whistle Edison, gums up their first handshake with some ersatz rubber. A young brother, ghoulishly interested in medicine, counts Link's metatarsals and pleads for a dram of blood. A budding sister hopes Link will marry her ("Plenty of girls marry before they...
...Nothing precipitated and solidified this gold so readily as contact with human flesh heated by passion. The time that Wm. Abrahams was disappointed in love he used to step outdoors when the wind was blowing, and come in again and begin to sigh & sigh, and his brother and I would extract over $1.50 out of every sigh...
...Brother v. Brother. In the north, beyond the German lines, the premature anti-Fascist risings of the summer had a painful aftermath. In Milan the Archbishop, Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shuster, found it necessary to threaten excommunication to those who denounced their anti-Fascist brothers to the Germans. Mussolini's Republican Fascist Government, speaking from a still-undisclosed capital, bawled new threats of death and imprisonment to all who wavered in their love for the Duce...
...Brother Tommy- a "kind of stooge or straight man for my father." Tommy kept a sparrow hawk in his bedroom, "and whenever he came through the door, it shrieked ecstatically and did knee bends, like a man trying to decide whether the crotch in his pants was too tight...