Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe, for the Unitarian Service Committee in France. After the war, he and his brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said he worked for the U.S. "imperialists." His sister said Noel and his whole family were just "Quaker-Liberals" who were "arch-individualists...
Wedding Breakfast (by Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo...
...Sister Veronica, a nun smoothes the tangled marital affairs of a wealthy young couple and reunites the husband with his stern and socially prominent father...
Married. Eve Denise Curie, 49, French journalist, lecturer and author (most notably of Madame Curie, bestselling biography of her famed scientist mother, Marie Curie), postwar (1945-49) publisher of the influential anti-Communist French daily Paris Presse, sister of Communist Party-lining, Nobel-Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; and Henry Richardson Labouisse, 50, United Nations official; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Some 20 years before he sat on a sunny riverbank spinning the tale of Alice in Wonderland for the benefit of three entranced little girls, the man who became immortal as Lewis Carroll wrote these lines for his brother and sister (aged seven and five) at a rectory at Croft. During the years that followed, as he grew up to become a clergyman, a teacher and a mathematician, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson kept his alter ego, Carroll, well hidden from disapproving adult eyes. Carroll the storyteller preferred to save his voice for only the very young. In this slim...