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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot condone in silence the reprinting on your letter page of a scurrilous anti-Catholic campaign verse, directly under a letter from a Catholic Sister who cancels her subscription in protest against your original printing of this doggerel. If the Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, I should wish TIME to print no shocking, versified allusion to the sacred "Beard of the Prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taft Letter | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...SISTER MARY BASIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...lines which vexed Sister Mary Basil were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...young stepmother was a Miss Soong (sister of T. V. Soong) and her two sisters are the wives of President Chiang and Minister H. H. Kung. Thus the new Chinese Cabinet is super-interlocked and cross-bound with family ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chiang's Cabinet | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher, critic and literary editor of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breeches to Crinolines | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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