Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Elisa Fernandez de Robles, sister of President Ricardo Jiminez of Costa Rica; in Mexico City (where she visited her married daughters); struck by an automobile...
...whole human race; at all events her name, Frederika Bremer, forgotten now, was then known in every house. Here and there she visited, met most of the famed people in the U. S., observed the quaint customs of the land, described it all in letters to her sister back in Sweden. Her letters were published soon after and widely read. Now they have been republished...
Married. Miss Abigail Victoria Harding, sister of the late U. S. President, to Ralph T. Lewis, real estate operator; in Marion, Ohio...
...deformed little country mouse, Hebe, who painted pathetic pictures, wrote him beautiful letters and cowered from his sight for shame of her crumpled body. He cowered from her sight for shame of his color, and all the more so when she impulsively sent him a picture of her lovely sister, in place of her own likeness. When Hebe discovered David's secret, she loved him notwithstanding. When he discovered hers, his bitterness was vile. He recovered, but without much grace, and this second climax is shaky. The baseless sentimentality with which it breaks off, cannot, however, alter the validity...
...best of all the picture actresses. True, she does not twang the public heart strings as loudly and as often as Gloria Swanson. Yet she has undoubtedly the most distinguished record of the sisterhood?Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, The White Sister. There are those who say that, with David W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin, she completes the trio of the only true artists of the screen...