Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ledlie was a St. Louis and New York newspaper executive and an associate of publisher Joseph Pulitzer. When he died, in 1929, Ledlie provided that the income from his estate should go to his sister-in-law until her death and the Ledlie prize after her death. She died...
...meeting was in confusion again. Without even waiting for the noisy undertone to clear, and elderly, woman who said she and her sister had lived for 16 years in the district, jumped and pointed to Delancy...
Your treatment of the Maryknoll Sisters was highly sensitive . . . The great welfare program of the Roman Catholic Church in this country is in the main carried by such ladies ... As an industrialist learned when he said, "Sister, I would not do what you do for a million dollars." She answered, "Neither would I. But I do it for the love...
...corners Kimani at his mountain cave and strangles him. Then he carries Kimani's infant son down to the family farm, hoping that the child may grow up with his own sister's baby - just as he and Kimani had before. In some vague way, suggests Author Ruark, the next generation may find peace; if not, the surviving baby can always serve as an excuse for an equally bloody sequel...
...post beside his head. Swish! Thirty assassins, black-robed like torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone has been able to match Hollywood at every point except two-the high-necked kimono is more resistant to bosomy uplift than...