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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell thee, churlish priest, A ministring angel shall my sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Madame Behave" Julian Eltinge is allowed to do all the cute things that Sid Chaplin forgot to do in "Charley's Aunt." There are some moments of genuine slap-stick merriment, when Julian's trousers peep from below his skirt and Ann Pennington treats him like a sister. The latter incidently does a near- ly perfect Charleston: one of the two things for which she is noted. But where as Sid Chaplin made an extremely homely and ridiculous woman, Julian Eltinge is far too natural and graceful to be interesting. It is only as a men that he seems ridiculous

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEIGHAN'S LUCK TO ACT IN IRELAND | 11/25/1925 | See Source »

Hermione is shocked. Hermione wants to marry her cousin Orestes. Helen does not like the straight-laced young fellow and would prefer her to marry Pyrrhus, the daredevil son of Achilles. Then there is the rumor that Eteoneus, the gatekeeper, brings to Menelaus: "Your sister-in-law Clytemnestra-your double sister-in-law, I might say; your wife's sister and your brother's wife-has been living with Aegisthus ever since Agamemnon went to Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Menelaus* | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Sidney Drew, 35, widow of the actor, sister-in-law of famed actor John Drew, sometime cinema actress for the old Vitagraph Co. under the direction of her husband; at Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 16, 1925 | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...brother. "Monkey," she squealed, "you ole monkey!" Peter glowered, as he had seen them do in the movies. He knew how to avenge an insult. He went to his father's bureau, climbed up on a chair, took an automatic from the top drawer, shot his sister dead. Said he: "I am sorry, but I was awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Chicken | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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