Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sister Emanuel, head nurse at the Sancta Maria Hospital near Briggs Field, phoned the police at about 8 p.m. that the fires were disturbing 64 maternity and surgery cases. Patrolmen broke up the disturbance and sent the men back to their dorms...
Another case involving a late great Italian entertainer turned up in court this week. In Milan, Alberto Valentino and Mrs. Maria Strada, brother & sister of Cinemactor Rudolf Valentino, sued Columbia Pictures and Edward Small Productions for $700,000 damages. The picture Valentino (TIME, May 7), according to Alberto and Maria, is a clear case of "defamation of character and the unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the famous star." As a result, brother & sister claim they have suffered "shame, annoyance, ridicule, humiliation and mortification...
...good works, but caring mainly about his looks. Preacher David Humiston found Ora's trim figure as attractive as her piety but, as he sententiously declared, he could not take a wife until God had prompted his hand. When he met Ora's pretty, light-tongued sister Ellen, he forgot about God's prompting. Ellen got the wedding ring, Ora a gold thimble for consolation...
...ordinary woman would have sulked a bit and then set out for new conquests. But not Ora. She clung to brother David and sister Ellen with parasitic humility. When they had babies, she came for long visits to help around the house. Soon she was there to stay, slavishly waiting upon and subtly corrupting her brother-in-law. Still prim & proper, she cast her body before him, and while David did not succumb, he was vain enough to enjoy her worship. By hints he urged her not to marry, and she was delighted to obey...
...petition was circulated through the seven 'Cliffe dormitories by Dorothy K. Billing '55, sister of WHRB president Thomas N. Billings...