Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Step-sister to "Merry Merry", the relationship is quite obvious. It has good music and a good cast and the plot is more original than Sunny...
...Friday afternoon and Helen Wilkus, aged 7, was waiting in St. Casimir's Parochial School, Philadelphia, for her sister Eva, to take her home. Down the hallway came some boys. They pushed Helen into a corner of the sewing room, "for a punishment. ... Don't you dast turn around or leave that corner!" they said. . . Sister Eva never came. . . . Next morning a nun found a figure standing in the corner of the sewing room, stifling sobs. "It was awful dark and lonesome," said obedient Helen Wilkus. "Then the light came and I heard the sparrows and I wasn...
...refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes a dawn train away from Cinder Town, going to Weyfleet to her sister Clare...
...that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed...
...world that it is not purely a football club. It awarded its Laetare Medal, designed after the Golden Rose given by Popes to European churchmen and intended to be one of the highest honors a Catholic-American can receive for distinction in arts or science, to Actress Margaret Anglin, sister of the Chief , Justice of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Francis Anglin. Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction, as everyone knows, was a long career...