Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Echo and the Nemesis, a girl who has eaten her way to elephantine size makes up pathetic stories about a lovely dead sister who never existed. The sister, of course, is herself "dead, dead and buried under layers and layers of fat." The huge girl is ill and has the intelligence to know it, but at the end she is compulsively devouring a glutton's meal to the horror of a friend who has found...
...Texans," explained Lyndon Johnson later, "are not always in agreement on everything. But there's one thing there's no disagreement on-that's Oveta. She's the type of woman you'd like to have for a daughter or a sister, a wife or a mother, or the trustee of your estate...
Between sessions of the legislature, Oveta lived in Houston with Florence Sterling, sister of Ross Sterling, an oil millionaire and soon-to-be governor of Texas. Through Miss Sterling, who had been a leading suffragette in her younger days, Oveta got an off-session job as secretary to the new Texas League of Women Voters (inevitably, she became president of the League in later years). In 1930 Oveta decided to run for the Texas House of Representatives, was roundly defeated by a rival who campaigned against her by thundering that Oveta was a "parliamentarian and a Unitarian." It was Oveta...
...young 'Ntoni sank to the running of contraband, stabbed the local policeman in a brawl and was sentenced to five years at hard labor. Dishonored by her brother's crime, the younger sister ran away and became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...
...know it, but this smiling, stocky braggart was going to make things pop for all of them. He started with the secretary, Florrie. In no time he had seduced her. Calling at her dismal slum home to tell her he would not marry her, Jimmy met her handsome younger sister Madge, promptly switched his affections and made Madge his mistress. As for poor Florrie, what else could she do but shine up to Herbert, a dull, decent office clerk, persuade him that she was carrying his child, and accept his offer of marriage...