Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonel, whose rank rests in Kentucky rather than the Army, inherited the bulk of his fortune in 1918 from his sister, widow of fabulous John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who made money on barbed wire and risked as much as $150,000 a night at the faro table. Some of the inheritance Baker invested in profitable local real estate, e.g., a bank, the Baker Hotel. The bulk he put to work helping his home town. Samples of his largess...
...blithely ahead with his plans to fly off in his own de Havilland Dove via Kuwait. Teheran and Istanbul to Rome, where he will pick up a car to drive to Switzerland. His brother. Crown Prince Mohammed, flew to Switzerland from Amman two weeks ago; his mother, daughter and sister and other brother are already there-leaving not one member of his immediate family in Jordan, and all affairs of his kingdom in the hands of a regency council of honorable nonentities...
...sister, there's no inspection. Just make, model and serial number, like I said...
Sketch bought anyway, visualizing the journalistic impact of Jane's thighs and sighs ("Shiv is mine! I won't let her take him away from me"). The editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
Miss Blanchard, as the sister Masha who carries on an adulterous and eventually doomed love affair, turns in a mature and persuasive performance. Not only does she know how to use her voice, but what is more important she catches the rhythm of Masha's speeches and shows how the woman suffers. As Baron Tusenbach, Thomas Teal shows himself as accomplished a technician as Miss Blanchard, and projects a wholly appropriate mixture of agony and nobility...