Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not assimilate.* Indirect feeding, and his powerful will-to-live, sustained him until that day. That Saturday morning the death passion set in. To his sagging jaw, as he lay propped up on his white pillows in the clinic of St. Jean in Brussels, a sad nursing sister held tenderly the rubber tube from the tank of oxygen standing on the bedside table. Consciousness did not leave him entirely. He saw facing him on an opposite wall the sorrowful, pain-wracked figure of the Crucified. He saw his two nephews, Father Joseph Mercier and Professor Charles Jean Mercier...
...medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other hand. Both prayed softly for the soul of their superior...
...show strong signs of desiring to handle lesser powers in a very arbitrary fashion. The smaller nations which have overthrown monarchical rule and followed the example of Western civilization in adopting more or less democratic forms of government begin to be considered thorns in the sides of their greater sister nations. Now the big powers of Europe seem desirous of creating federations of small sovereign nations...
...third and last act Brunnhilde comes to her sister Valkyries closely pursued by Wotan who must punish her for treason. Sieglinde is saved by the Valkyries but Wotan causes eternal magical flames to burn around Brunnhilde who is cast out of Valhalla. The flames are to protect until a warrier, strong enough to overpower them, shall come to marry...
Married. Arthur Cheney Train, famed novelist (His Children's Children, The Needle's Eye, etc.), to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard; at Suffern...