Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleetwood Malenkov gurgled "Goo goo" at a 13-month-old baby lying in a crib, identified a chicken in a picture book for the baby's four-year-old sister with the comment, "Chick-chick-chick." Crossing into Scotland, Malenkov joined arms with a group of workmen at the modest Ayrshire cottage where Poet Bobbie Burns was born, and sang Auld Lang Syne in a rosy-red mist of good-fellowship. "Hip hip," cried one of the workmen, and the others chimed in, "Hooray...
...dwindling until in 1954 George Burns of Burns & Allen suggested the new series that has become the Bob Cummings Show. In it, Bob is a dame-happy bachelor photographer whose major problems are to avoid marriage while at the same time trying to find a husband for his widowed sister (Rosemary De Camp), who does not particularly want one. The show is nearly as slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines in his girl Friday (Anne B. Davis), a half-pint comedienne known as Schultzie. Sponsor Winston...
...dinner (he wore a red tartan dinner jacket), with only his really good friends in politics invited-the wealthy, intellectual, aristocratic amateurs. Among the guests were Washington Lawyer George Ball, Louisville Editor (Courier-Journal) Barry Bingham. Chicago Industrialist (duplicating machines) Edison Dick. By the time that Stevenson's sister and biographer (My Brother Adlai), Elizabeth Ives, arrived, Stevenson was beginning to get the news from Minnesota. "It's lousy," he said. "It's just awful...
...That Zeidler's sister is married to a Negro. Actually, Zeidler's sister is divorced from a white man, now keeps house for her father...
...pair develops a quick sense of mission-to unite Britain. Novelist Treece supplies Artos with two Guineveres to Malory's one (but uses the Welsh, Gwenhwyfar). The first Gwenhwyfar is a flaxen haired homebody, his half sister as well as mother of his child. The second is a kind of dusky call girl from Byzantium, a Gwenhwyfar from home. Artos makes her amorous acquaintance in a shivery session atop one of the ancient slabs at Stonehenge. He takes her to wife, but inevitably the day comes when the Count of Britain must off to the wars to fight...