Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always had the greatest respect. . . . I do not suppose I met him half a dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that once he gave me a copy of the memoirs of Sister Somebody-or-other, and I could not help feeling that he wanted me to absorb all the lessons of that good woman's life...
...home, but abroad we find new peril, declaring spiritual warfare and ready to declare material warfare on the people of this nation. Where our children are willing to listen, they are taught the ways of the Third International. We find its hand clutching at the heart of our sister republic in the South. We find it stirring up trouble in Asia, in China, in Nicaragua. . . . In the face of this insidious propaganda within our own territory and in other nations it be hooves us to be vigilant...
...Secretary Wilbur never heard, for instance, of a corrupt church blocking the road which leads up form slavery in "our sister republic on the South", or of extra-territoriality acquired by the "right" of superior force in "Asia, in China, in Nicaragua." Mr. Wilbur may fool himself into thinking he can stop the wind by tilting at windmills. He will not fool history...
...liked girls, but as friendly and intellectual companions. Said his sister: "He used to correct their grammar when they conversed, and gravely lecture them upon the folly of wearing stays. . . . No village belle ever liked to own that she laced tightly, or that she wore a 'board,' as it was a tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief...
...ousted from the New York Evening Post's composing (i.e. typesetting) room because that newspaper desired "only decent-looking men about." Said his sister: "He seemed to me the embodiment of romance and poesy, and now, as I think of him, with his pure unselfish nature, so early devoted to what was noblest and best, I can only compare him to the high-minded boy saint, the chaste seraphic Aloysius...