Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous and decently optimistic mind. The Way of All Flesh is not a hymn of hate against his father, but in greater part a caricature of himself as a young man. The delay in its publication was due to a desire not to hurt the feelings of his sister Charlotte. He would have married Mme Dumas, about whom Mr. Muggeridge tells an incredibly scandalous story; but she herself did not wish it, because under the terms of her husband's will she would have forfeited her income. Henry Festing Jones was not "one Festing Jones," but a musician...
...Teahan's qualification for the post is that he is married to Mr. Murphy's sister. Both he and his wife lived in Malacañan Palace, Manila, during the entire regime of Mr. Murphy...
When Bachelor Frank Murphy went to the Philippines he took along his sister to be his hostess, his newlywed brother-in-law because his sister insisted on it. As soon as Mr. Murphy gave up his Manila post, Mr. Teahan left Mr. Murphy's payroll. About to take out his final U. S. citizenship papers, he currently works...
Widow Green's lawyers, headed by one-time U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, objected to the probate on general grounds that the 1908 document was not a last will & testament. Sister Hetty's counsel moved to dismiss the objections, alleging Mrs. Green was no interested party in the probate because of a prenuptial agreement in which she waived dower rights for $1,500 per month for life...
...Wake Up and Live, Winchell appears as Wrinchell, Bernie as Bernie. The Brande moral emerges in the person of a modest little vaudeville actor named Eddie Kane (Jack Haley), brother of Winchell's secretary Patsy Kane (Patsy Kelly), who, when his sister gets him a radio audition, is so terrified of the microphone that he cannot make a sound. To cure himself of his psychosis, Eddie tries singing into a "dead mike." The microphone, not dead at all, is connected with the one on which the Bernie Band is broadcasting. Eddie's voice makes him instantly famed...