Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most glaring examples of the ever-increasing, detestable "trials by newspaper" . . . Unconsciously, Miss Kilgallen designed her narrative to display one emotion for one person: quivering sympathy for Mrs. Sheppard . . . After a gruesome, adjective-laden description of the slides of the dead woman, consider the effect of the sob sister's subsequent sentence: "No wonder at all that Dr. Sam (meaning the defendant, I presume) cried. He could remember well, without looking...
...Clovis, who insisted that his father was guilty. But, he added, "he should be pitied. He's an old man who lived well all his life. He had just a moment of madness." "You're a coward! You're a pig!" screamed his 44-year-old sister Augusta. "You're dishonoring...
...Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira's mother and sister, both widows...
...Sister! do not rouse my wrath, I'd make you into mutton broth As easily as kill a moth...
...which the moral is appended: "Never stew your sister...