Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes is both a novelist and a scholar with a thirst for the sensational. (His sister-in-law, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes is Tsarina of the Cleveland Orchestra.) Musicians know him for his able works: American Composers, Music Lovers' Cyclopedia. Rabid novel readers recall such things as: The Thirteenth Commandment, Souls for Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes...
...heart fails slowly. As he lies grimly cheerful in bed, completely absorbed in the fate of his body, it is less and less upon his public fame, more and more upon his dead wife and Delphine that his side-thoughts turn. Delphine commits suicide, victim of melancholy. Her young sister, Gwen, arrives to lament, to accuse. She stays to love Sam's son, Geoffrey. Sam passes his crisis but relapses. Deserted by Delphine, he utters his wife's name as his jaw drops...
...popular William T. ("Bill") Tilden lays aside his whanging racquet. Though he is more graceful than last year, he is not yet viewed with alarm by Broadway's first 20 ranking actors. As family chauffeur, Wade Rawlins (Mr. Tilden) keeps tabs on father's, brother's, sister's peccadillos, so that at the most embarrassing moment he is able to drive off the blackmailers who threaten the socially unstable new-rich. Later he blossoms forth a most satisfactory candidate for the daughter's hand, especially since he is not of such lowly station...
...first attempt I made, I nearly went to sleep in the water. Some one had pue drugs, in the beef tea I drank before starting. My trainer proved this beyond any doubt. Well, before my second attempt, all my food was prepared by my sister. I was more confident than ever of making the swim, though no one else thought I would...
...certainly a woman who wrote "Miss Tiverton Goes Out." The other women, Juliet's mother, her sister Angela, and Margaret are so completely done: and so entirely different one from the next. But then, the men are equally good...