Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack be nimble, Jack be quick; Jack jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father...
...Charles tells a high-romantic tale about Bernard's sister Lucy. Bernard: "Charles, you are a liar...
Died. Henry Stevens, 70, one of the acquitted defendants in the unsolved, tabloid-trumped-up Hall-Mills murder case (1926); of heart disease; in Lavalette, N. J. Two co-defendants survive him : his sister Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered minister, and his lethargic brother Willie, who made a monkey out of cross-examining Attorney Alexander Simpson...
...your sister publication, LIFE, continually poke fun at us poor "semi-educated people" who are doing the best we can toward "self-improvement...
When Gestapo agents searched his sister's home in Stuttgart and found pieces of clocks and two chisels with traces of plaster on them which exactly matched the plaster of the Bürgerbräu Keller, Elser decided to confess everything...