Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes," replied the friend. "Roger is dead." The local police, when he called them, were equally unamused; "Funny business is not funny when it concerns the police," a cop growled. He agreed at last, as a public service, to transmit the dead man's message to his sister. The first real partisan Roger found in his fight for life was a Professor from the Lycee. "I would never leave a man alone in a situation like this," said the brave academician...
Playing a double role, that of an actress and her sister, the beautiful Miss Rogers does show an aptitude for comedy. Her timing is good and an occasional gesture may be laugh-provoking, but in the final analysis she fails, again under the influence of Verneuil. The author also directed the play and one must assume that he is at the root of Miss Rogers' incessant pacing back and forth, her arm-flailing, and her occasional falling into a sophisticated mood which is neither natural nor becoming...
...your Wellesley girl always on the phone, talking to someone else, or is it the System that's keeping you apart? Is she feigning popularity while the Bell tolls for other girls, or is the girl on bells talking to her sister elsewhere on campus...
Something Soft in the Cellar. Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...
...night 26 years ago, an unknown hand knocked three times at the door of a foundling home in Bilbao. The sister on duty waited the regulation three minutes to give the nocturnal caller time to retreat into the darkness, then she opened the door. In a wicker basket outside, a baby girl lay sleeping. "Take good care of my baby," said an unsigned note pinned to the basket. "Her name is Maria del Rosario. God protect...