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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed by this time her husband and Baby Wallace were at large together, she sobbed: "I can't understand it. We have had our spats but they were never serious." Meanwhile the telephone call that had brought police cars humming to meet Truster Groves was traced to his sister, Mrs. Howard Burton, in Baltimore. Said she: "Just say it was a mistake, wholly a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...manly V. M. I. officers and guards of Brother Rat (TIME, Dec. 28). But Frank Wilson (Charles Jordan) and Scappa (Maurice Burke) are nobody's angels. Frank has murdered a man in a stickup with a gun he got Johnny Stone (John Raby) to steal from his sister's sweetheart, a Holmes patrolman. Frank seems pretty smart to Johnny when he gets the two of them sent up for three years for a $10 robbery so they can hide out until the trouble blows over. But Johnny begins to crack when his sister's sweetheart is convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Seventh Heaven (Twentieth Century-Fox). When Chico (James Stewart), Paris sewer rat whose ambition was to be a street-washer, rescued Diane (Simone Simon) from her sister, who was beating her with a strap, he wondered why he did it. His emotions became even more puzzling when, after he had agreed to give Diane temporary shelter in his garret, he found that he did not want to let her go. Not until he saw Diane in a wedding dress he had bought her, did it finally dawn on him that he was in love. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Diane's mind, there was never any doubt about what was happening and why. Knowing Chico gave her the courage to walk across the catwalk from his room to his neighbor, Street-washer Gobin, and, later, to chase her mean sister (Gale Sondergaard) downstairs. It gave her the courage also, when she got news of Chico's death, not to believe it. After the Armistice was signed, Diane put the onion soup on the stove early to have it ready when he got back. At supper time, Chico was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...from San Francisco climbed a brand new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat named the Pan American Clipper after the sister ship which made the tests on the central Pacific service. In command as always when Pan American starts a new project was its taciturn senior pilot, Captain Edwin C. Musick. With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pan American Down Under | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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