Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kiss'd your sister...
...blood of his inheritance. The latter increases the world's population by one surreptitiously but serenely. The former is unnaturally intent on nothing but good works. Both, finally, are attracted by an aggressive labor leader. Miss Ferguson is lovely but not always lucid as the looser sister. The best performance of the play is Nance O'Neil's. She portrays the mother, bloody but unbowed after many years of connubial fireworks with the barbaric father...
...Carisbrooke in England) is alive. Gossip in Europe says that the healthy members of King Alfonso's family are his two daughters, and that the eldest one, the Infanta Beatriz, has inherited Alfonso's clever brains also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso...
...floor. No active trader had Mr. Booth been, with hundreds of clients to represent. Apparently his misconduct had been technical. But the penalty was heavy disgrace. He had vanished from his hotel, leaving no clue, only a note disposing of a nebulous estate in favor of his sister and brother; had written in a letter "in case anything should happen to me through accident or otherwise. . . ." Wall Street veterans shook their heads. It was not the first time a ruined broker had thus prepared...
...there is Adeline, an old, crude, arrogant woman who wants to be 100 years old; her sons, Ernest and Nicholas, one of them over 70; Renny, present owner of Jalna, Adeline's grandson by another father; Renny has four brothers, Eden, 23, Piers, Finch, Wakefield, 9, and one sister, Meg, about...