Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halted, this placed the Nanking Government in a dilemma calling for the talents of Brother T. V. Soong. Great Mr. Soong has been called "the Morgan of China," and it is stockbroker gossip in Shanghai that Brother Soong is not always on the best of terms with his little sister, Mme Chiang. The Soong family tie binds them, and it always will, but sometimes the bonds chafe...
...quite long enough, or too long and "the Morgan of China" (although his position actually is more like that of Dr. Schacht in Germany) is in a better position to gauge Chinese public opinion, world opinion and the situation in Japan than is almost any other Chinese, including Little Sister and her husband Chiang...
...Reason: his half-sister Ruth, half-brother Elliott, and their parents will be there...
...when he learns from a newspaper clipping that Garth - suspected at the time of knowing something about the murder - was never called as a witness. To the dank tenement under an East River bridge where Garth is living with his benign old father (Maurice Moscovitch) and his innocent young sister (Margo), Mio goes one rainy win ter night to learn what Garth can tell...
...brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally deciding to divert Horner from his wife by taking him his sister. Mrs. Pinchwife (Ruth Gordon), however, learns city ways so fast that it is she, bundled up and masked, who is escorted to Mr. Homer's chambers where the play soon reaches a logical conclusion...