Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senorita Natalia Calles, daughter of President Plutarco Elias Calles is a devout Roman Catholic. So is her dashing sister, Ernestine (TIME, July 26). So is their mother. But President Calles has said: "No influence, national or international, including the grunts of the Pope, will cause the [Mexican] Government to vary its attitude [toward suppressing the Catholic clergy...
...chorus girl had younger brother. His name was Frank--to make the story brief--The Witch with help from still another Contrived to make "Our Frank--a thief!" When Sister sought the Witch's aid, Markham was his name, she found him in his lair. She cried, "Where is the money Brother paid?" The Ralstons found her there...
...John Willard, who did The Cat and the Canary, has done this one badly in a trick yacht interior which rolls and pitches with uncanny naturalness. "How did this yacht party get cut adrift; and are these young lovers brother and sister; and who planted the bomb?" seems to be the plot. Sedative...
RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
...hundred and fifty years ago the several halls of Harvard College were almost denuded of students who went out to fight for the independence of their country in the American Revolution. Today, in a manner no less striking though superficially less apparent, graduates of Harvard and its sister colleges and universities of America are leading the fight of their fellow countrymen for the independence of China...