Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sisters were four-Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first...
During the dinner, Will Thorne turned to "Lady Astor's sister" (Mrs. C.D. Gibson?) "remarking that the beauty of her reminded me of a song I had often heard sung in East End. She was curious to know what it was and finally persuaded me to hum the song that I had in mind." The song...
...quips, his double-tongued chirpings, jumping this way and that like crickets in a hot hayfield," always sniffing and listening around metaphysical corners for God. John Cowper Powys now and again casts his sterile chill. And there are other Powyses?a wisp of a mother, a "lovely seagull" sister, a rustic brother who dwells in "the divine oblivion of cider and ditch-digging, of making bulls leap cows, and bringing foals into the world...
...achievement. Author MacKail has done it, with a very nice mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another man. But her motives are left shadowy, and the situation is only a foil for some rather splendid precentive heroics by Ian. More than a few times will the reader of Greenery Street be moved...
...Sister from Paris. Once more the device of inducing a husband to make love to his own wife under the impression that she is a less familiar female is in circulation. As usual it is pretty funny. This particular wife happens to have a twin sister dancing in Paris and a stupid husband. The fact that Constance Talmadge plays both of the sisters is primarily important. The Man Who Found Himself...