Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the walking Gills confirmed a long suspicion that our family inherited their wanderlust from our Manx father and not our Scots mother, who bore and weaned the six of us in Uganda. After wandering the globe, brother Ian settled in India, brother Noel in Mauritius, sister Kathleen in Iraq, sister Betty in Rhodesia and twin sister Doreen in Canada. I keep in touch with them all from this address...
...weeks ago Fitzgerald and Wilk got a tip that Magrie was on her way back to Chicago. She outfoxed them for a while, but her maternal instinct was her undoing. Late one night last week the detectives spotted her getting out of a cab a block from her sister's house, where her two younger daughters are staying. "She had put on about 25 Ibs., and her hair was dyed black and cut very short," said Fitzgerald. "I said, 'Hello, Maggie.' She turned to me and said, 'You talking to me?' We said, 'Sure...
...said, 'Don't you think I look different? Even my own sister didn't recognize me at first.' Then we put her in the car and took her in and booked...
...proud sons and daughters of the Old South is a caution. Pathetic Fay Wray loses her mind when she loses her man to Joan. The luckless man (Barry Sullivan) retires to his room in the mansion house to nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things to a happy conclusion by burning himself and Joan alive. Based on a novel by Edna Lee, the film is played as though it were a road company...
...Harris had changed -from rising star to reigning diva. Yet to the hundreds of well-wishers who tramped through her dressing room it was puzzlingly apparent that this diva was perhaps the most improbable mutation of the type since Charlotte Cushman hauled on tights and ranted Romeo to her sister's Juliet...