Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella, the erring sister of the family, when Papa Juan would ask her to his hundredth birthday party. But the old man rises above them all, smoothes out the quarrels and before the play is half over has so won the sympathy of the audience that one wishes he could fulfill his facetious determination...
...been able to see in New York, Washington. Philadelphia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls is the outside of homes. . . . What is the atmosphere of an American home? How do parents and children get on? What attitude has a boy on the fifth floor of an apartment building toward his small sister lying in her crib by the window? How much is the care of these children left to nursemaids...
Boyhood in Manhattan. "I remember as a small boy going with my father to the Atlantic Garden and listening to the lady musicians. . . . My sister and I were given chocolate to drink, and huge slices of cake, while the elders drank their beer. . . . When I was ten years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships...
...first three terms in the assembly I knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant all my children, my wife, some of my sister's children, and, on some occasions, my mother...
...Author. Bertrand Russell is heir presumptive to an earldom, but he shares with his famed sister-in-law? the honor of making people forget his title and remember his work. He is known for books on mathematics, philosophy, sociology, education. He formerly held a fellowship at Cambridge, but was deprived of it during the War for his writings against conscription, for which he was for a time imprisoned. He says of himself: "I like the sea, logic, theology, heraldry, the first two because they are inhuman, the others because they are absurd...