Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaton Sluice. I was a coal hewer then, and we were terribly in love.. We both wanted a son. A year after our marriage, 51 years ago, he was born, but Marion died. On the day of her funeral, I handed the baby, John Charles, to my sister Louise to look after. Then I sold the house, packed up and went to sea. I was very young, very sad and very lonely...
...quarter of a century after that, Fred Jaques followed the sea. He heard once from his sister Louise: she had divorced her husband, and was putting the sailor's son up for adoption; then she drifted out of sight. When Fred Jaques returned to England years later, he tried to find his boy, and was told that he had migrated to Australia...
...Blaisdell opened the Claremont Graduate School right next to Pomona. That same year Miss Ellen Scripps, half-sister of the newspaper tycoon, became so enthusiastic about his idea that she gave him the first of many gifts ($500.000) to start a college for women. Finally, in 1947, the association opened the college...
...floored by the poverty that haunts his father with the workhouse, wrecks his mother's and sister's health and prematurely kills both, and sweeps the Nimmos into humiliating dependence on neighbors. He is floored by his preacher-father's Puritan code and his mathematical proofs of the imminent second coming of Christ. He is floored by his elder sister's erratic half-fond, half-bullying rule over him when their mother dies...
Betweentimes he must face two other judges: a mother as implacable as Madame Defarge who exchanges not a word with him, feeling that his comedown has smirched his father's name (a World War I naval hero), and a sister whose eyes still sting with grief at the death of her only son on Marius' lost ship. How strong the case against Marius really is becomes clear when, in a drunk and fitful sleep, he blurts out that he murdered his nephew for siding with the first mate just before his ship went to the bottom...