Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Juliet Pierpont Morgan, 76, at her home in New York City. She was the widow of the Rev. John B. Morgan, at one time rector of the American Episcopal Church in Paris, and a sister of the late John Pierpont Morgan...
...attended by no little disillusionment. _ RAIN-A spirited attack on the big stick missionary. Jeanne Eagel is the persecuted, somewhat unevenly virtuous instrument of the Rev. Davison's eventual fall. Realistic rain falls intermittently. SEVENTH HEAVEN-There is a tremendous moment when Helen Menken, as the submissive sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, turns on her with a courage restored by love, and beats her with her own, whip. LOYALTIES - John Galsworthy's somewhat theatric demonstration that conflicts in loyalties may be disastrous. A wealthy Jew, persecuted by amiable clubmen, wins a doubtful point. KIKI - Aside from holding...
Miss Abigail V. Harding, sister of the President: "I toured Greenwich Village incognito and viewed the night life accompanied by Secret Service and Department of Justice...
...them always in groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came...
SEVENTH HEAVEN-Helen Menken begins as the timorous sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, but at the end of the second act, her courage restored by love, she turns on the sister and lashes her with a black whip...