Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Smith and his friends lamented an occurrence in Brooklyn. There, police were obliged to arrest Patrolman Vincent Glynn, 200-lb., 27-year-old son of Candidate Smith's sister, Mrs. Catherine Smith Glynn. It appeared that Nephew Glynn, on sick leave, had drawn his pistol in an alleged speakeasy and said: "How would you like to see what I can do with this?" He fired at the stove, wounded a man, fled to a vacant store, fumbled with his pistol, wounded himself...
Sylvia Pankhurst's sister Christabel, also a onetime "militant," has recently announced that she is "now active in the movement for heralding the personal and visible Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, as foreshown by the present signs of the times...
...then present in the system of pre-medical education. Although the achievements toward which the two systems point are essentially different, there is a similarity between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous in the extreme would be any application of the principle of unity as an educational rule of thumb; nevertheless the acceptance of the tutorial system by one of the two sciences that had been unincluded within it makes the hot light...
...Mack or Sergeant Michael Devlin as he is called in the play-bill, was a fussy and bumptious redcoat, though shrewd, daring and romantic withal. He was making love to dope flend's little sister as the curtain fell after all the villians were on their way to the gallows. "The Scarlet Fox," excepting several ridiculous moments of April-fooling, is a pretty fair cock-and-bull dream. In it you may enjoy some unbelievably veracious acting by Miss Marie Chambers as the chatelaine of a Canadian bagnlo; by Mr. Sam Lee, as a canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney...
...original Andrew Jackson was their great-granduncle and great-grand-foster-father. Children of his own Andrew Jackson had none. But he adopted and named Andrew Jackson Jr. his dead wife's sister's son, descendant of Inventor Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame. The present Andrew Jackson, a Los Angeles realtor, and the missing Albert Marble Jackson, were brought up at "The Hermitage," historic Jackson plantation near Nashville, Tenn. Before vanishing, reputedly by steamer to Europe, Albert Marble Jackson is thought to have disposed of valuable Jacksoniana from "The Hermitage...