Word: brother-in-law
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Within the royal family itself, Margaret's brother-in-law, Prince Philip-himself a newcomer to the ruling family-threw his influence against the marriage and urged his wife, the Queen, to oppose...
...characters are so many musical instruments for a rather sophisticated but monotonously scored tone poem. There is a mother (Aline MacMahon) who is pleasantly, parochially country-housish; her once-vigorous brother-in-law who is now just terribly old; her overserious, not very human son (Hume Cronyn), a civil servant who has lost out on the girl who loved him and is losing out on a career. There is the girl herself (Jessica Tandy), now a middle-aging widow who loves him no longer. Devoid of pasts or futures or both, the characters are drowning with the utmost politeness...
...grievance started the case, was called to the stand, the prosecution objected. Judge Swango sent the jury from the room while he heard her story in order to decide whether it was relevant. It was a tale eminently likely to make a Tallahatchie jury acquit her husband and brother-in-law even if the evidence against the accused had been six times as great as it was. Judge Swango ruled that her story was irrelevant to the actual issues before the court, and did not let the jury hear...
Inside Job. In Richland Center, Wis., haled into court for stealing his brother-in-law's car, Melvin Vest, 21, got a one-to-five-year sentence, explained to the judge: "I thought my sister deserved to have a new car, and I figured if I stole the old one, they could buy a new one with the insurance money." One-Way Traffic. In Nanaimo, B.C., after he was fined $10 for drunkenness when police found him carrying on a one-sided conversation with a shapely store-window mannequin, Logger Lome Curtis explained that he was not trying...
...Grover, without telling the press, came ashore at Minot's Light, North Scituate, only half a mile from his starting point. When his mother finally reported him safe just as his wife reported him missing, the police picked him up on his brother-in-law's charge and secured $100 bail...