Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meets Girl" is a recklessly silly satire hurled against that great helpless brute, the cinema. The movies for several years now have been offering their humble deference to the older sister, in the form of receiving players and plots, and the haughty stage has been responding with scornful excoriations. The stage's chief tenet is that anyone really a part of the celluloid industry must perforce be moronic...
...grubbiest part of Los Angeles. Before his elevation last week he had planned a magnificent new Cathedral in the swanky Wilshire section, but he changed his mind, decided to use the new Cathedral money for a seminary. His private quarters are on fashionable Fremont Place, where his sister keeps his house and a dog keeps him company...
Eleanor's father would occasionally observe that it would be nice to be struck by lightning while reading the Bible. He said he would rather bury someone than marry him. Frightened and distressed at this cheery conversation, Eleanor and her sister were even more put out when their father, desiring to warn them against sin, would remark dolefully that he would rather see them in their grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather...
...addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch...
Introduced by her grandfather to the intellectual life, by the doctor's wife to sophisticated social and artistic worlds, Sister remains in the wilderness after her grandfather dies. The villagers make fun of her, her highbrow friends desert her, and she often goes hungry. Her girlhood sweetheart Mitch Holt serves a prison term in Atlanta, returns to the River, marries her, settles down. Infidelities, doubts, constant hardships mar their marriage, but Sister, pained more by Mitch's growing contentment than by his occasional wildness, dreads most of all her power to tame him, fights the tendency...