Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arduous hours compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent a day of their southerning in her evergreens, she took them personally, sadly. She wrote of lilacs, passionate to identify herself once more with her old New England...
Born. To Mrs. Burton S. Tucker, 48, and Burton S. Tucker, 19, a son, who already has a sister, aged one. the first issue of a marriage which occasioned nation-wide comment two years ago, at Baltimore...
...Chicago, in a room which she and an unknown man had taken as "Mr. and Mrs. Norman," of burns sustained when a kettle of boiling water overturned. "Silver Dollar" was added to her name by W. J. Bryan, of whom Senator Tabor was a staunch supporter. Said her sister, one Mrs. John Last, wife of a wealthy Milwaukee business man: "I have never approved of my sister's life ... I can see no reason now why she should be more to me than just a dead woman in Chicago Why should I, who have pride and quiet, claim...
...Colonel Sweeney wrote to his sister in Spokane: "The Riffs are excellent infantry and first-class shots. You may judge when I tell you that they have already shot out of airplanes from 500 to 1,000 feet up and going from 80 to 100 miles an hour over twenty French aviators." The French communiques from the front have not been so specific...
...invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous ignorance. And the old gentleman, who 30 years ago wrote sadly of his desuetude, continued: "He (the modern young man) is always playing games or motoring or dancing and gives no time to serious study. I was able to do so when...