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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palmer's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Palmer of Duxbury, have so far received no confirmation or dental of the report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gold Worth Millions Found by Graduate | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...Home. Tall, blond and thinly handsome, Robin was no ordinary pianist. He was nephew of the Earl of Home, who is currently the Tory leader in the House of Lords. Robin is a close friend of that young cutup, the Duke of Kent, and a frequent escort of his sister Princess Alexandra. After five years as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, Robin was training to be an advertising copywriter by day (at $40 a week), working as a pianist at night (at $84 a week). Soon Robin was taking Margaretha to dinner; once, dressed as Little Jack Horner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Princess & the Pianist | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin on top and thick at the jaw, but he still exudes boyishness, whether socking home Yankee Doodle Dandy in strutting, arm-pumping style, or getting moist-eyed over the last exits of Cohan's vaudeville teammates-his mother, father and sister. As the other three of the Four Cohans, Roberta Sherwood, James Dunn and Gloria De Haven seemed just right, and Singer-Dancer June Havoc also shone in a production well cast right down to the sponsor-Swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...music teacher decided to enter her in the ministry's contest. When she won, her father took a leave of absence, now lives comfortably, at his government's expense, with his wife and child in an apartment in suburban Sevres. ¶ Hasan Kaplan, 14, lives with his sister, mother and father, a retired naval officer turned art teacher, in a hotel on the Left Bank. Having begun to paint as a toddler, Hasan has had a one-man show in Turkey, exhibited his canvases in both Paris and New York (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952). ¶ Ates Pars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Turks With Talent | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...finds Louisa a soft-spoken girl with pudding-round cheeks and plain as rain. But her younger sister Ida is another matter-lithe, shrill, dark and electric. Roger kisses her on a dare, and shortly dares more. "What about Louisa? What are we going to do?" asks a momentarily sin-shocked Ida. "Do? Why, keep our mouths shut, I should think," answers Roger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tempest in the East Riding | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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