Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also shown is a complete set of first editions of the famous "Rollo" books, published a century or so ago. These were among the earliest childhood books read by Miss Lowell and her brothers Percival and Abbott Lawrence, and her sister Elizabeth, and have been in constant possession of the Lowell family since publication...
...composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest a dance routine. Always...
Saying that "Yale is happy to associate herself with a group of sister institutions," President James Rowland Angell commented that young men of unequivocal intellectual promise "should have made available to them, no matter in what part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education...
...Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent her early childhood in Canada in an atmosphere of "aristocratic exclusiveness" which she admits was "already nearly a century out of date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty of the family. Elinor herself had red hair and green eyes, and red hair was not the thing in the 1880s...
...Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven. When her sister married into English society, Elinor visited her, became an immediate success. Her first two seasons brought her three admirers-a bibulous, spluttering peer, a Duke, a millionaire-but they were all unattractive...