Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversy hinged to the permanency of Dailey's residence. The student counselors maintained that he intended to live with his sister indefinitely on the grounds that he intended to get a job in the vicinity after graduation...
Said Fellow Conductor Sir Hamilton Harty: "He is understood to be very absent-minded." Said Fellow Conductor Sir Adrian Boult: "We musicians are all a bit absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...
Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif...
...crash. Swart, Spanish-blooded poor-but-proud Senator Dennis Chavez, who got credit for most of the Federal funds obtained for New Mexico, also beheld four of his close relatives indicted: his son-in-law, Assistant U. S. Attorney Stanley W. P. Miller; his cousin, Salamon Chavez; his sister, Mrs. Anita Tafoya (in charge of a WPA sewing project) and Nephew Salamon Tafoya...
...sister, who protested against this affair, he wrote the most impassioned letters in the book, demanding that she receive his mistress and condemning artificial moral standards: "Do you think I have been insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...