Word: sisterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...counsel to the Democratic National Committee), the residuary estate of $200,000. To her favorite psychiatrist, Dr. Richard ("Darling Dick'') Hoffmann, 64, on whom many of the gossips would have bet, she left only an oil painting. Last week in a Manhattan court, Mrs. Satterlee's sister was trying to break the will on the grounds of undue influence by doctor and lawyer. Also, a witness said, the Morgan granddaughter was incompetent, had never been very bright about money, had trouble telling pennies from quarters. By week's end, the gossips and tabloid readers had something...
Last week Bishop Barry, who has led the Church of England's official recruiting campaign, arrived in the U.S. for a visit. His purposes : 1) to conduct a three-month preaching tour; 2) to see if "his church's sister communion, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S., which has a clergy shortage of its own, has any hints to offer on how to attract worthy candidates to the Christian ministry...
...thousands hung over their TVs and radios, rescuers worked on. At the 21st floor ledge, men spread a net, like fishermen in a sea of air. Jones's father and sister, and a priest, the Rev. Paul Huber, joined the rescuers on the 47th floor...
...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...
...story of The Grass Harp revolves around an emotional conflict between two middle aged spinsters, the Misses Dolly and Varena Talbo, who live in a small town with her nephew. Dolly discovers that her domineering sister wants to exploit a secret Dropsy cure that she had discovered, and she promptly bundles off her nephew and the cook to a tree house in a nearby forest...