Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that the Duchess of Kent, sister-in-law of King George VI, would get a proper cup of tea at the matinee, the management of London's Scala Theater scurried to a theatrical costumer, laid out $28 to rent a solid gold tea service for the afternoon. Next day, Mayfair gossip that the duchess would announce her engagement to handsome Anthony Eden turned out to be far from solid. Eden's secretary told the Sunday Pictorial: "Not a shred of truth in the rumor...
...murder. It has a certain novelty of atmosphere and attack: it tells of a gifted young painter (Leueen MacGrath) who has been condemned to hang for poisoning her brother, and who is forced by floods-while being taken to prison-to spend some time at a convent. A nursing sister (Margaret Webster) has a fierce conviction that the girl is innocent, and works at the case till she finds the right solution...
...which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah's wife (probably Naamah). For no reason that Chapman and his associates can figure out, the most recurrent question is: "Do Indians have beards...
Storm Warning (Warner). A traveling dress model (Ginger Rogers) stops off in a Southern town to visit her married sister (Doris Day). She hardly sets foot on the town's strangely dark and empty main street when she stumbles on a violent scene: a sheeted mob of Ku Klux Klansmen hauls a man out of jail, beats him, shoots him down on the sidewalk...
Little David returned smiling happily and initiated the "healing services." While the loudspeakers drooled soft organ music, forty of the afflicted lined up in front of the platform. The first patient was a crippled woman in a wheelchair; David called on Jesus to heal this sister then tried a mental suggestion on her. "Don't you feel God's healing power flowing through you? you do, you do!" After five minutes of this, the woman rose out of her chair and walked thirty feet to an empty seat. The audience moaned in amazement; a man behind me cried out "Jesus...