Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James Robertson Justice...
...telephone Dr. Lavezzi demurred. It was late, he said, and he had to get up early next day to treat an out-of-town patient. Giovanna's sister-in-law told Lavezzi that they would get another doctor and called Dr. Luigi Gardin, obstetrical consultant at Venice's Ospedale al Mare. Gardin agreed to come, told Giovanna's husband Carlo to meet him at a square near his house. Ricci waited at the appointed place for 40 minutes, then telephoned Gardin again. The doctor's excuse: "I don't have the instruments...
There was silence. The Bhil men sat cross-legged and impassive; the Bhil women stared at the odhnis through the eyeholes in their cloaks. For a while nothing happened. Then one woman rose, slowly advanced and uncovered her face, her eyes glued to the wonderful cloth. "Take the oath, sister," said Tantia, fingering an odhni. She hesitated only a moment. Almost before he knew it, Tantia had given away 460 odhnis (value...
...Girl? The plot's pretty problem: Zdenka, younger sister in a penniless noble family, has been raised as a boy for economy's sake (a boy's upbringing is so much cheaper). But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo. Fortunately, Arabella falls for a handsome stranger and Zdenka lures Matteo to her room, leading him to believe he is getting Arabella. Since the handsome stranger overhears (and misunderstands) this plot, things look pretty bad for a while. Zdenka finally clears everything up by appearing as the woman she really...
Bronzes & White Gloves. Dr. Claribel, before her death in 1929, advised her sister to give their collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art only "when the spirit of appreciation for modern art in Baltimore becomes improved." Miss Etta devoted the next 20 years to caring for the collection, cleaning the pictures herself, insisted movers wear white gloves when handling pictures. While rounding out the collection with 19th century French masters, she increasingly concentrated on the work of Matisse. Today the collection of 42 Matisse oils (spanning the years from 1895 to 1947) and 18 bronzes provides a superb record...