Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...craft is a reward of which a man may be unashamedly proud. The fiction that I am worthy of that honor be upon your heads. . . . Yet at least the art that I follow is not an unworthy one. For fiction is truth's elder sister. Obviously, no one in the world knew what truth was until some one had told a story. . . . Fiction began when some man invented a story about another man. It developed when another man told tales about a woman. . . . Perhaps a dozen writers have achieved immortality in the past 2,500 years. From a bookmaker...
...sister of President Madison once said, "We Southern ladies are complimented with the name of wives; but we are only the mistresses of seraglios...
...great many of his fellow West Virginians, by the United Mine Workers of America. He was asked to call a special session of the legislature for impeachment proceedings against Judge I. Grant Lazzelle of the Monongalia County circuit. The miners charged that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated "a most solemn contract," two of the companies being headed by the lessee...
...like Liberty, is made to stand sponsor for a variety of things. License is their little sister, without whom they would be sad indeed, yet whose excesses are frequently embarrassing...
...Sister Mary Veronica Ryan, nursing nun LL.D...