Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the county put him in a boarding home, he threw tantrums and complained that he wanted a bicycle like other kids. At twelve, he quit school; when he was hauled before a judge he sullenly asked to be sent to the reformatory. A married sister got him out; he responded by robbing a Joplin taxi driver...
...tragedy begins to break in on the Conboys a few weeks after Christmas, when Cate's twelve-year-old sister Em horrifies the family by taking off her clothes for the poor farm's Peeping Tom "to cure him." Then Cate's brother, who has eloped with one of the farm's wayward girls, learns the name of his wife's seducer and emasculates him. For a girl of curly-headed Cate's puritanical upbringing, all this is shocking enough, but when she finds out that daddy has been unfaithful to mother...
Along with his new identity and the promise of riches, he picks up a doting mother (Selena Royle), an affectionate sister (Mona Freeman) and a sudden rash of scruples. When he learns that the rancher's real, kidnaped son has been adopted by a Mexican bandit chief (Joseph Calleia), Ladd stages a one-man invasion of Mexico to bring the missing heir home. He is undeterred by a whole bandit army, the rough terrain and the fact that the long-lost son is perfectly content to stay where...
...shifted his wad of chewing gum, announced his decision: "O.K., sister. Go through." After they had gone a little way, the G.I. shouted at them to wait. He disappeared behind a farmhouse for a moment and came back on a cart pulled by a team of horses. "Get in," he said to the two frightened women. "You've walked enough by the look of you. You're going to ride...
...Infanta Maria de los Dolores Victoria Felipa Mercedes Luisa Carlota Eugenia de Borbon y Orleans is a member of the Bourbon family whose dynasty was replaced in 1931 by Spain's second republic. Her sister married Don Juan, Pretender to the Spanish throne. The Infanta Dolores' first husband was Polish Prince Auguste Czartoryski, Duke of Klewan and Zukow...