Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bluffs, Iowa, and James L. McLane of Garrison, Md.-finished first and second. Yale's best, George T. Washington of Detroit, great -grandnephew of Father -of -His -Country George Washington, finished third. Harvard's reward is $5,000 worth of books given by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard...
...sleepless nights wondering whether her two children's lives are poisoned too. Her sister Albina Maggia Larice cannot walk at all. Her two children were born dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark...
This article finds its starting-point in a remark recently made by a student of a sister institution, a member of the staff of its college weekly, to the effect that the faculty adviser read every word in every issue before the paper was printed. Every sheet of copy, every page of proof, he said, had to bear the censor's initials; and the printers had been instructed not to go to press until the faculty adviser had given his official...
...citizen and his wife were looking at a photograph of Miss Anne Morgan, 55, idolized daughter of the late John Pierpont Morgan and sister of Banker John Pierpont Morgan, 60, in an advertisement in a morning newspaper. Miss Morgan was publicly endorsing Old Gold ("Not a cough in a carload") cigarets; that is, she had put her signature to a statement alleging that she had taken the blindfold test, smoked four brands of cigarets and found that "the smoothness" of one cigaret was "so obvious." That cigaret turned out to be Old Gold...
...Story. There was no story, and that was Adrienne's trouble. Suppressed by a middle-class father concerned only that the arid monotony of his existence, be undisturbed, guarded by her sickly sister, the village spinster who envied youth and health and beauty, Adrienne was starved for drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer...