Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better than prostitutes, the real basis of the revolt is an embarrassment many Jaunswar women have recently discovered in being married to more than one man. A Jaunswar girl who admitted to two husbands quickly added, "But I live with only one. The other is now living with my sister." Jaunswar mothers who have been sending their children out of Jaunswar Bawar for modern schooling have been pained to see them weep when the plains children jeer: "How many fathers have...
...year-old Toni Monetti of Port Washington, N.Y.. a Skidmore sophomore, sister of onetime intercollegiate Dinghy Champion Bob Monetti, became the women's sailing champion of North America by clinching the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy in three days' racing in International 210s...
...love that Mama and Papa Wouk lavished on him, his sister Irene and his brother Victor warms Herman to this day. Best of all he liked the Sabbath. As a rabbi's daughter, "Mama was treated rather like a princess around the house." But when Friday afternoon came, "she scrubbed the kitchen on her hands and knees until the place shone. The candles were lit, and we sang the joyful Sabbath hymns and drank the sacramental wine; the children, too. My father usually talked about the Bible." As in Marjorie Morgenstern's home, the menu was always gefilte...
Before graduation, Wouk had announced that he was going to be a writer. His sister Irene still remembers the family powwows that ensued: "Father said if Herman wanted to write, why not write advertising copy for the Fox Square Laundry? Mother twisted her apron in anguish and insisted that he go to law school." (Years later proud Mama Wouk was seen carrying The Caine Mutiny almost everywhere she went...
ATOMIC SUPERLINER, sister ship to the 53,000-ton, 2,000-passenger United States, may be plying the Atlantic by 1960. Federal Maritime Board Chairman. Clarence G. Morse, who has talked with United States Lines about a superliner to replace the 16-year-old America, predicted it would cost $100 million, take three years to build. Both the Maritime Board and U.S. Lines officials hope to install a nuclear power plant in its engine room...