Word: brother-in-law
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...lessons. Each morning eight thickly padded green chaise longues were wheeled out onto Bobby's lawn and assembled in a circle, along with a long-leashed telephone, maps, charts and other paraphernalia. There Bobby, Jack and their top strategists - Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith, Bailey and Rowe - began to map out the looming campaign. Bobby and Steve stripped to the waist to absorb the sun along with the strategy, and Old Pro Bailey unbent enough to take off his necktie. From time to time one of Bobby's seven children...
...without "anybody but the Ladies Aid" and her Aunt Polly (Wyman), a middle-aged puckerpuss who lives all alone in a vast Victorian mansion somewhere east of the Mississippi and does good to her fellow townsfolk whether they like it or not. When Aunt Polly hears of her brother-in-law's death, she sets her thin lips and grimly agrees to take the girl in. "I know my duty . . . disagreeable as the task [will...
...attended by Thackeray, Cardinal Newman and W. S. Gilbert); Tom was a pupil there briefly, and hated it. As a "plebeian,"' which is what he proudly called himself, young Huxley could not hope for a university education in 19th century England, but a scholarship and a medical brother-in-law saved him from the obscurity of the uneducated. He graduated in medicine from London's Charing Cross Hospital, served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy where his duties were largely confined to dredging up and dissecting marine organisms. He sent a constant stream of reports and papers...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The experts do not agree on who the artist was; most attribute it to the 14th century school of Simone Martini in Siena. Yet the master himself was probably not the painter; most likely, it is the work of his brother-in-law and pupil, Lippo Memmi. Experts speculate that the painting was originally part of a magnificent altarpiece, with at least one other saintly companion, and they think they have found a good possibility: a remarkably similar painting of St. Peter, which now hangs in the Louvre in Paris...
...twist of a vise, like-minded hobbyists from Havana to Hong Kong lay their problems on the workbench of this toolroom Da Vinci. Patiently, Keith answers each letter. Just as patiently, he seals a little copper box of his sister's "trinkets" in the ballasting of his brother-in-law's yacht, and agrees to take care of the couple's ten-year-old daughter Janice while the pair sails for western Canada via the South Seas...