Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain falls. The Steam Roller rolls blunderingly through three acts in the form or an inexpertly written part for Janet Beecher. Miss Beecher plays an imperious and exhausting spinster whose lover went away to China years ago. In point of fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster lion and does just that in time for a happy peroration. The intent is comic...
Coming out at the roar of ugly Holborn, he ruminates: Catholicism sat like a sister of mercy by the deathbed of its mother, the ancient Culture. Protestantism was the nurse of a lusty child, modern civilisation." Passing a huge Dissenters' "chapel," he says: "It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally...
...post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, vacated by the resignation of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., when he attempted unsuccessfully to obtain the Governorship of New York, President Coolidge appointed Theodore Douglas Robinson, son of the first T. R.'s sister and cousin of T. R. Jr. T. (D.) R. was State Senator in New York in 1916-18, 1920-24. He is the fourth member of the Roosevelt family to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...They look upon the Government of Washington as of their own generation, and any one who knows of what the people of our sister dominions are thinking knows that some of them, particularly those who look out on the Pacific, feel that in Washington there is an instinctive understanding of difficulties which, when they come to London, they have laboriously to explain to Downing Street...
...Editor's note: The writer of the above communication, whose name is withheld by request, is the wife of a prominent Harvard graduate and sister of a member of the Yale football team...