Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Investigation disclosed that the woman thus spared was the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Psychologists wearily pointed out that, like so many actual assassins, she was not only demented but known to be demented not only by her family but by all who knew...
...those seethingly tropical things which sound suspiciously as if the author had never been nearer Pago-Pago than a ukelele store. It tells of a fine young U.S. yachtsman who falls in love with one of the island damsels. Later she turns out to be his half sister. A dancer* named Veronica has the leading role...
Died. Signorina Anna Sarto, 76, youngest sister of the late Pope Pius X;* at Rome, in a tiny apartment facing St. Peter's Square, where she lived with her only surviving sister, Signorina Maria Sarto...
...several times visited both) the U. S. and Canada during the intervening years. It was while lecturing at Columbia in 1915 that he married his first American wife, Miss Henrietta S. Porter of Annapolis, who died in 1919. In 1921 he married Miss Mabel Davison of Manhattan, sister to the late Henry P. Davison, famed banker. He died at Mentone, French Riviera, universally honored among scholars and beloved on two continents for his warm, compelling charm...
...these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm. She afforded him a public and private refuge from erotic impulses that he could not consummate. He called her "sister" and could pretend to himself that he had married for purity. Illness during her adolescence and a full stop in her mental development made this "purity" permanent. Her naive mother supplied the one other element-devoted care-essential to a little world where Poe's abnormality might hide from...