Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poet in whose hands our little souls Are putty to be molded into chords So beautiful that no cathedral holds More inspiring altars and candles of God's, Tonight, my sister perished! Ah, too early! She was still young and all of us loved her; Death has now clutched her in his oily Claws that are strong and stretch like some rubber. Can you not write some words to ease my heart And write about her a touching little poem? And then, though dead, she ever will not Be absent from us though death has riven us apart...
Ernest C. Kanzler (whose wife is Edsel Ford's wife's sister), director, the three Guardian organizations; organizer, the Universal Finance...
Marion Davies, who has taken off weight, plays the part of Patsy. She is abused by her sister and her mother (Marie Dressier with a face that could stop a thousand asparagus tips). She moons for a rising young realtor, but is made to stay at home and wash the dishes while her sister goes out with him. Later, the realtor tells Patsy that she must cultivate Personality; so she gets a set of books which enable her to amaze her family with such casual remarks...
...Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel in an Ohio village...
...townspeople, the cheap sports who came to lodge at Aunt Jule's place. She was terrified when she saw the loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay the way her own high-school boy friends turned away from her as they grew old enough to appreciate the fact that her guardian ran a fairly disreputable boarding place. When the old lodger in the garret died...