Word: blacksheep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving all his money to his wife, they suggest that she has murdered him with an overdose of strychnine. The only member of the brood who defends her is a blacksheep named Ronnie (Richard Cromwell) who is killed while flying to the trial in which the old nurse is acquitted. She gives her traducers the money she has inherited and is last seen as a menial again, in service with another family, the smallest member of which has just misbehaved himself...