Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeking days during the Depression. After Betty walked out on her husband and deserted the chicken farm (The Egg and I), but before she came down with TB (The Plague and I), she went to live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including "a rabbit grower, a lawyer, a credit bureau, a purse seiner, a florist, a public stenographer, a dentist, a laboratory of clinical medicine and a gangster...
...telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...
...year old, have to sister 13 and 15. Our daddy get drunk all the time. We are to move because the lady want her rent and our daddy give it all to the sloon . . . we don't have much to eat and my mamma sick and can't work and she has no clothes. She has to go bair footed . . . Maybe if the sloon man reads my letter he won't sell daddy any more whisky, and then daddy won't come home and beet my mamma and us kids any more...
...week also brought news from Margaret's elder sister Elizabeth. Elderly, efficient Nurse Helen Rowe, who has probably attended more royal babies than any woman alive, moved into Clarence House Tuesday to be ready for the momentarily expected birth of Elizabeth's second child. Buckingham Palace put the date at between August...
...many a U.S. city, the local amusement tax (on movies, baseball games, circuses, etc.) adds up to a sizable part of the community's annual revenue. TV, like its older sister, radio, is a form of amusement that pays no local amusement...