Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gertrude Stein was merely Leo Stein's tag-along sister for the first half of their lives: in Pittsburgh, where they were born; in Vienna and California, where they were brought up, and in Paris, where they went to live. Until they were in their 30s, it was Leo who was the clever one. He knew about ideas and he knew about pictures, and he told Gertrude. Then, to Leo's astonishment, Gertrude began to turn into a genius. People began to take her inspired gobbledygook seriously, and she began to buy Picasso's new cubist paintings...
...England of Ruth McKenney and her husband Richard Bransten is not unlike the Greenwich Village she described in My Sister Eileen-a place considerably more productive of mad fun and giggling fits than the real thing. The book is designed for the intending tourist, a figure Author McKenney seems to picture as a rather backward 14-year-old for whom things have to be put very, very simply, especially dull and difficult things like history...
...What do you know about this affair?" the harassed judge asked another witness, Martha's own sister Emma. "The whole parish is full of it," she answered. "How did it begin?" asked the court. "Well," said Emma, "one day Maria had to feed her pigs and the 'witch' came near the pigs' fodder, so Maria threw the fodder into the toilet. Then the witch gave the sparrows to the children." "I deny everything, everything, everything," said Martha Minnen...
...also had tact, wit and a will beneath the hat, and proved it thereafter in one of the toughest assignments in the British Empire. For the next 16 years (until 1949), "Crawfie's" job was to teach the outspoken little girl and her tart-tongued sister their respective places - as royal princesses of the world's greatest monarchy...
Princess lleana, sister of Rumania's ex-King Carol, was being treated for arthritis in Boston. She was also hawking her mother's crown, a silver kokoshnik (tiara) set with seven sapphires...