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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denounced Naziism in the church synods, but he was too good a Junker not to enter Hitler's army when he was called up, on the strength of his World War I service, in 1940. He was released from duty in 1944, after his sister Elizabeth was beheaded for complicity in the Hitler bomb plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Interpreter | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Gaston was trained to be a lawyer, Raymond a doctor, Marcel a librarian. But to young men out for excitement in turn-of-the-century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Family Affair | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...ship seemed to be washing about in Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Orphans of the Storm | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...excellent by any standard. He was a character of despair, and through his careful, subdued delivery he set the mood of the play. Cyres Del Vecchio was especially impressive in a supporting role and both Elinor Fuche and Barbara Falen were more than adequate as Kerr's sister and mother...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Moony's Kid Don't Cry and The Long Goodbye | 2/29/1952 | See Source »

...when a group of Parisians were trying to divest the Queen-mother and her ten year old son, Louis XIV, of power. In a thoroughgoing revision of history, the original Musketeers' children save the Queen from her precarious position, rescue the Sun King from a monestery, and save his sister from the clutches of a bonafide villain in the old style, the Duc de Laville. For additional merriment, Ferris and Hofman have provided that Athos, one of the original Three Musketeers, should have a daughter (Maureen O'Hara) who joins the revels at the Golden Cockerel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Sword's Point | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

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