Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philosophical hero of Dr. Samuel Johnson's famed novel. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Curious about the world outside his realm, Rasselas stole away and explored with his sister and a poet. He saw much, envied little, went home...
Other well regarded serious plays are ESCAPE; BLESS YOU, SISTER; CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE'S series; BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM...
...became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps 25 years after this. To supply a background of later events that are not included in her story of David Schuyler's boyhood, Author Hurst quotes, in footnotes, from the imagined diaries of David Schuyler's sister. The advantages of this somewhat televisionary technique outweigh its defects; perhaps in this book a precedent is born for those pseudo-biographers who bend the lives of great men into bizarre and unlikely curlicues...
...facts, and declares that the Navy has done everything possible to safeguard the lives of in submarines. Yesterday, even as President Coolidge insisted that the investigation of the disaster he pushed to the almost. Senator La Guardian of New York, after spending thirty-two hours in the sister ship of the S-4, fore up the speech he had written attacking the Navy Department...
When a weak sister among the nations (as Peru), who has been obliged to pay 7% and more interest on over $50,000,000, borrowed from stronger sisters (as Peru has done), has opportunity to borrow $50,000,000 at only 6% interest, she hastens to make the new loan. This Peru did last week, by selling $50,000,000 of 6% bonds through J. & W. Seligman & Co., National City Company and their syndicate associates. The Peruvian government has determined to devote at least half of the new money to buying back bonds which carry the higher rates of interest...