Word: brother-in-law
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...elder sisters, Liza and Sonya, were caught in Tolstoy's love-web. Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...
...planes and guns, and the best army in Central America, Tacho was worried. Last week he decided that it was time to try a little appeasement. To four Central American republics (Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras) his Foreign Minister Luis Debayle, who is also his brother-in-law, sent invitations to a regional conference on "outdated treaty agreements...
Dream Girl (Paramount) was a highly successful stage comedy that Elmer Rice wrote for his talented wife, Betty Field. It is about a working girl who runs an unsuccessful bookshop and has a crush on her brother-in-law. She escapes from these annoying realities in a series of glamorous daydreams-until love of a rude young book reviewer brings her back to earth...
...Your brother-in-law," replied Rossi, "is President of Costa Rica...
Temporarily ensconced at Chipping Lodge is Mrs. Brocken's brother-in-law Simon, the sort of crabbed but basically kindhearted curmudgeon who has been a reliable fixture of English novels for several centuries. Simon is decidedly hostile to modern life: "I look back to 1912 as the highest point of civilization, from which we have been steadily retrogressing ever since." Together with some mildly romantic young folk, Mrs. Brocken and her brother-in-law manage to live in pleasant decorum, with each member of the household sensible enough to mind his own business and respect the others' peculiarities...