Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time there were two confused freshmen named Lemnel Q. Fresh and Louella Q. Fresh. They were twin brother and sister, and often forgot which was which. One day, when they were looking for Mallinckrodt, they both wandered into a little brick building at 14 Plympton St. They never got mixed up again...
When Widower Charles Curtis was elected Vice President of the United States in 1928, he assumed that his half-sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann, would rank as his official hostess. Dolly had been with Curtis in Washington ever since he came out of Kansas to enter the House of Representatives in 1893, and had acted as his secretary for 20 years. Even her marriage to Patent Lawyer Edward Everett Gann, a Kentucky Democrat, did not separate Dolly from brother Charles. She continued to play an active part in his campaigns and, after the death of his wife in 1924, she became...
...argued that, in the absence of President Hoover's wife, top rank at the dinner table belonged to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth and daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. Official hostess or not, they declared, Dolly was only the Vice President's sister, and should sit below the wives of foreign ambassadors. The leaders of this school of thought were the Longworths...
Ralph Meeker, Paul Newman, Peggy Conklin, Eileen Heckart all seem like real people. Janice Rule as the young lady is indeed both beautiful and confused. Only Kim Stanley, as her younger sister, is a bit unbelievable--she is too often too bold in telegraphing her moods...
...Pang settled down to wait. There, on the night of last Dec. 5, violence caught up with Pang again. As the story was pieced together later by Army investigators, a white U.S. Army lieutenant and three Negro G.I.s burst into the freezing mud-and-stick hut where Pang, his sister-in-law and her two children lay huddled on straw mats. They announced that they were searching for stolen U.S. goods-blankets, canteens and canteen cups. Pang placed himself before the woman and children, and, in halting English, objected to the search...