Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finds in 1914 that the crisis she must meet is complicated by the fact that Marc, her illegitimate son, is old enough not to feel the need for maternal intimacy. She goes away from Paris to teach in a country academy, leaving Marc in the city with her sister, Sylvie. She becomes involved in a friendship between Germain de Chavannes and a young German prisoner. At great risk, she unites these two, helping the German to escape to Switzerland. In so doing she increases the hostility between herself and her son. In the end she succeeds in making him understand...
...title suggests, this little piece is the sister of "No, No, Nanette", which finally passed on to New York a year ago after everyone at Harvard had seen it at least once. The younger sister bears a close resemblance to the older one, and were it not for a few minor differences and the obvious time element, the two girls might almost be called twins...
...affirmative sister is funnier than the negative one: and she is also less musically inclined. Both girls are equally lacking in any brains if the plot of a play corresponds to a girl's mental equipment...
...Tucker employed an English type of phaeton, two high-steppers that could trot a mile in less than 2.30 min., and a small Negro "tiger" (coach-boy) up behind. On rainy days he used a closed carriage. He kept his sister in reserve and had to fall back on her one evening to keep up his lock-raping continuity...
...Dickens Items, a complete set of five famous Christmas books in beautiful condition, the parts of "Our Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman...