Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sister...
...first, Mazurkiewicz persisted. At last he persuaded her to give him several thousand dollars for safekeeping by warning her that he had a tip that the secret police were about to raid her home. When she asked for the money's return, Mazurkiewicz shot her−and her sister for good measure−and buried them both beneath the concrete floor of his garage...
...mother's death," writes the bishop, "when she was four and a half, she admits that she became reserved, timid and inclined to weep without cause. At six, she 'enjoyed' melancholy. At eleven, her sister, Pauline, her second mother, entered [the Carmelite order], A serious nervous breakdown resulted, with fits of catalepsy, hallucinations and delusions. Treatment failed; she did not recognize her own sister. A cure came suddenly when the statue of our Lady smiled at her. The propensity to tears and headache continued; she loved to be alone. At twelve, scruples set in; black moods followed...
...though he insisted to her that it was directly inspired by God and wrote on the flyleaf of the proof sheets he sent her: "An Inspiration which came in response to the prayers of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think you are a better Catholic than I, but my view of the Bible is the view of the Fathers of the Church; and yours is that...
...father even used to take me to dances and set me on the bandstand while they danced." He bought her furs and a big diamond ring, and sought her advice constantly. When he toured, she would follow him around the country. When she died, Duke wept in his sister's arms. As for his father, Duke had long since made him road manager of his band...