Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last January, the Bannister boys and their 15-year-old sister Frances tramped seven miles through the snow-muffled forest to the Pacific Junction cabin of one Phillip Lake who-lived with another man's wife and his two children by her. He had a baby daughter who might be kidnapped and palmed off as Mrs. Bannister's. The boys shot and killed Lake, chased his naked woman into the snow, clubbed her to death, left her 20-month-old son Jackie floundering in the snow beside her, set fire to the cabin. Jackie shortly froze...
...connected with Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's Four Square Gospel Church in Los Angeles...
...Manhattan last week there were more cheers than ever for Toumanova, Baronova, Riabouchinska, Lichine, Massine. High spot of the engagement was to come with the revival of Stravinsky's Les Noces, for which Nijinsky's sister Bronislava has traveled especially from Europe to direct the choreography...
After they had been married some months, George and Mary took a belated honeymoon in Sicily, foolishly taking his invalid sister with them. When George had to get back to his practice, leaving the two women to follow later, the sister collapsed. Of course it was Sparkenbroke who came to the rescue. By the time George got there to take Mary home, she and Sparkenbroke were more in love than ever. By terrific clenchings of spiritual muscle they kept it platonic, but agreed it would be unsafe to meet again. When Sparkenbroke had finished his book and gone back...
...unselfishness, suggested to both of them that John give her the longed-for baby. When they took him at his word his reaction was equally agonizing. By this time John was ready to do anything that would keep him near Zamfira-even willing to marry Zamfira's sister, who was more than willing. It looked as if America was farther away from John than ever. But when his beloved died in childbirth he remembered at last that...