Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorry! Spring came; the teacher left the village, and when she returned again, she brought along a sister and a large, protective aunt. "Ah," said the villagers with wise glances, "she has brought a chaperone. Now what will he do?" For a year Pietro did nothing. Then he approached bluntly and announced: "I have decided I want to marry you." "I am sorry," said Francesca. "It cannot be." Stupefied, the mayor went to his uncle the priest. "I don't understand," he said. "How could any girl refuse?" The old priest inhaled a vast nostrilful of snuff. "Women...
...senior in years. At last Francesca let it be known that she was leaving the village forever. On the night before her departure, the mayor set himself up in a room just across the street from her house. All night, as the girl huddled in bed with her sister and aunt, Pietro paced back and forth. Suddenly he opened his window and shot out the street light. Francesca's aunt screamed in terror, but nothing more happened. And in the morning when Francesca, her family, and two other schoolteachers left town to make their way to the swaying bridge...
When he was back home at 22, his tic returned, and he started cursing again-from ten to 40 times an hour. "By this time," notes Psychiatrist Michael, "both his mother and his sister were refusing to accompany him out of the house." When psychotherapy failed, Dr. Michael tried giving his patient inhalations of carbon dioxide four times a week, hoping to slow down the responses of the nervous system. "The frequency of his utterances decreased," reports the doctor, "and he was discharged from the hospital after 30 treatments." Minus his tic and with an innocent tongue, the patient...
Citation: "We salute the chosen one of a favorite sister...
...popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak is a travesty, a horror." Of his own sister. Cafe Singer Frances Faye, he cracked: "She's really not my sister; she's my father...