Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evangelist" who last year contributed a religious comic strip to The Presbyterian Guardian (TIME, Oct. 28); and David ("Scelp"), 19, who blossomed out as a self-taught sculptor at 15. Most commercial member of the family is Xathanael ("Thanny"),11, who has a Philadelphia Bulletin paper route. Their mother & sister keep house, supervise some 30 meals...
...building R. M. S. Queen Mary, the thrifty Scots of John Brown's Shipyard on the Clyde have just paid a tight little dividend of one shilling (25?) per share, after years of paying none. Last week they got the contract to build what Britons called a "sister ship" to the Queen Mary until leading London newsorgans declared that...
Next morning the world learned for the first time that John Pierpont Morgan was a sick man. Two weeks before he had suffered a mild heart attack and a severe attack of neuritis while visiting his late wife's sister, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, whose home is near Prides Crossing. Dr. George Parkham Denny, Bostor internist, had pulled Mr. Morgan through the heart attack, had started him toward recovery from the neuritis which had so weakened the muscles of his legs that they had to be spared the weight of his 200 pounds...
Eldest of the seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into cinema in the days of the nickelodeon. His only sister was the wife of Sam Katz. Balaban and Katz were the first theatre owners to cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain...
Resin Scaeterbun, an intelligent and educated U. S. citizen in spite of his name, is first shown enjoying life in the A. E. F. Home again, his first act is to seduce his buddy's sister. Without waiting for consequences, he makes tracks for his native town, where he is soon in trouble with the police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down...