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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Where the Blues Begin." Most South Dakotans are farmers, most farmers are disgruntled, most disgruntled among farmers are the farmers of South Dakota. From neighboring Nebraska comes In-surgent-Republican Senator George W. Norris. It also happens that South Dakota holds its presidential primaries earlier than any of its sister states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Custer Park | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Engaged. Rosetta Duncan, elder Duncan Sister; to William Beri, cinema technical expert. Vivian Duncan, younger Duncan Sister, was rumored also engaged-possibly to Nils Astor, Scandinavian cinemactor. The sisters acted in Topsy and Eva, (TIME, Jan. 5. 1925); have long had a pact requiring a double wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...TRIUMPH OP YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Bishop Philip Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Child Witch | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...find Sister Caroline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERSE: Trombones | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...Daughter of the late Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U. S. Supreme Court; sister of John Maynard Harlan, able Chicago lawyer; aunt of Assistant U. S. District Attorney John Marshall Harlan of New York, successful prosecutor of Earl Carroll, perjurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 30, 1927 | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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