Word: brother-in-law
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There is a married book-jobber who is useful for visions of glamorous sinning but not much else. There is her arty boob of a brother-in-law, whom she thinks she loves. There is a gay bully of a newspaperman, whom she thinks she hates. But after dinner, theater and a midnight drive with the Press, hate turns to love...
Playwright Sherwood is writing about the last five years in terms of Morey Vinion, the "liberal" editor of his brother-in-law's "conservative" paper. After the Nazi invasion, Morey conies out for aid to Russia and collides head-on with the paper's Red-baiting, policymaking, Mammon-serving, isolationist business manager. He chucks his job, joins the Navy, becomes the cook on a destroyer...
...Younger brother Victor, now 28, didn't bring his saxophone into the band until he organized a rival one called Lombardo's Canadian Royals. Sloe-eyed Baby Sister Rose Marie, 19, joined as a singer in 1942. A brother-in-law, Lieut. Kenny Gardner, will be back as singer when he is discharged from the Army. That leaves one brother out: Joe, who can't play anything. Joe likes interior decorating, so the Roosevelt hired him to decorate the Grill...
Before a joint session of the powerful National Defense Council and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the Generalissimo delivered an epochal address on foreign policy. It was the logical sequence to the treaty of friendship and alliance negotiated in Moscow by his dynamic brother-in-law and trouble-shooter-in-chief, Premier T. V. Soong (see INTERNATIONAL...
Treaty of Friendship. While Chiang grappled with "open rebellion," his brother-in-law, Premier T. V. Soong, hurried from the Kremlin to the White House. On & off since early July, he had been talking in Moscow with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. In his pocket Premier Soong carried a signed treaty of friendship and alliance between Russia and China...