Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before 1,000 stunned but still loyal Democrats in the Conrad Hilton Hotel's Grand Ballroom he stood, waving and smiling. Behind him, weary but proud, stood his sons, John Fell and Borden, and his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives. Turning with true style to that strange ordeal expected of a loser in big American political battles, Stevenson thanked his supporters "for the confidence that has sustained me'' during the time "I have been privileged to be your leader...
...weddings and funerals--and a number of magnificent fights, all staged by director George Stevens with an eye for grand effects. The aura of grandeur surrounds even the villain of the piece, a rather boorish ranch-hand who finds oil on a little piece of land which the boss' sister leaves him, goes on to cover the rest of the state with oil wells...
...Hunting not only satirized the wedding of Grace and Prince Rainier, but also used everybody's real names and even called Monaco Monaco. One ditty in the show, starring Ethel Merman, gaily spoofed "social climbers, wisenheimers" and informed listening Mainliners that they are "snooty snobs." Grace's sister Lizanne made her exit before the first-act curtain-"to get home to the baby-sitter." Thunderous applause burst out when one line of the script grudgingly allowed: "All the Kellys are nice people." Rainier and Grace had fortunately missed the show, preferring to stay in Maryland with friends...
...sister and brother were Mary and Charles Lamb. Charles was a 21-year-old clerk in the offices of the East India Company-a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes. As a result of a nervous breakdown he himself had spent six weeks "very agreeably in a mad house at Hoxton." But confronted with the hard-and-fast alternatives of taking care of Mary or committing her to an institution, Charles never hesitated. Until death parted them, brother and sister lived together like...
...arrived from Athens. In Greece her father had been a successful pharmacist. But in the U.S. he drifted from job to job. The family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular. It is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted." Forced to wear heavy spectacles for her myopic eyes, little Maria avoided schoolmates, ate compulsively...