Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a stocky, Bavarian appearance would not be unflattering to some, the Annex should present the lean with the fat. The sister institution has rarely been distinguished for her sylphs, and if the consumption of eclairs is to go unchecked, many facilities, such as seating plans and pathways, will have to be redesigned...
...Advocate. You answer that it was just great, really fine, or you squiggle up your nose in an evasive act of disdain, depending of course whether, in the first case, you enjoy drinking an occasional glass of crisp refresher with Rendundancy, or, in the second, he takes your sister out to the movies on Saturday nights and you don't like his looks...
...Angeles courtroom was smog-filled and torrid. Off went the judge's coat. Off went the lawyers' coats. On stayed the clothes of the shapely plaintiff, Actress June Havoc, 41, and for a change, those of a key witness, her stripping sister Gypsy Rose Lee, 45, demure in a blue polka-dot dress. Cool and calm, June and Gypsy waited for the hearing to begin on June's complaint that she had been bilked in a real estate deal. But the smog won out, and the court was recessed. "In this kind of weather," said Gypsy, surveying...
...U.P.I, photographers in the Southwest, but he carries a camera like any man on his staff. Last week, in Little Rock from his Dallas base, scrappy Charlie McCarty, 42, caught a glimpse of a picture in the making: two white boys approaching a Negro boy and his sister as they walked past an all-white junior high school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going...
...money and family. All are friends living in a convention-clamped New England university town. Except for Harold, a humorless but kindly culture-vulture, they would much sooner make a sexual slip than be caught uttering a cliche. Bayard works full time at being a snob and composer. His sister Cally paints, keeps hopping into beds, and wonders if true love will always pass her by. Tosh is a poet who has just been ditched by a beautiful girl who is reasonably sure that it is possible to live by bread alone...