Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last December...
...Lusk the Harvard navy has received its third additional craft since approximately a year ago. The boat was taken out by crew D of the A squad on its initial cruise yesterday afternoon and will probably be used from now on. It is expected that this boat or its sister craft, which was launched about a week ago, will carry the Crimson eight at New London in the race with the Elis in June...
Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
...with whom the Nestoroff betrayed Giorgio was the latter's sister's fiancé, one Aldo Nuti. Aldo now reappears, just before the taking of the tiger scene. He has come for her or for revenge. She scorns him. She turns his revenge upon himself. She traps him into offering himself as a substitute for her Sicilian in the tiger scene, then covers him with public derision for his heroics. He has not heard about the precautions...
...Hempstead, L. I., Thomas O'Donnell, 18, high school senior, wrote a letter to his mother explaining he felt he was being a financial hindrance to her and his sister; wrote appointments of schoolmates as pallbearers; marched to the stage of the school auditorium, took out a revolver similar to one he had brandished lately in the school play, (Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers) and shot himself...