Word: brother-in-law
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...most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape...
Mildred slept on a cot in the same room with her sister and brother-in-law. "Every other night, when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. . . . When he got in one side of the bed, I jumped out the other. He would run after me, trying to rape me." Attorney Norman Becker asked why she did not scream. "I didn't want to wake my sister." Attorney Robert Cantwell Jr. asked why she did not leave the Feiler household. "They needed somebody to take care of their daughter...
Jesse Livermore picked up a cool million or so and a reputation beyond price. Thirty years old, he was again dubbed the Boy Plunger-this time by Wall Street. He bought a steam yacht and sailed for Boston, where he spent $200,000 trying to save a brother-in-law from the chair for killing his wife...
...probably intending a good deal more than that. When General Francisco Franco's slick brother-in-law Don Ramon Serrano Suner returned from his first trips to Berlin and Rome he began tapping members for a Hispanidad Council, designed to foster "intelligence and love" for Spain in Latin America. Since one of the first Councilors was Spain's new Consul for Havana, it looked as if Don Ramon meant to replace German and Italian fifth columns with the Falange...
...flags crowded each other along the tiny station platform. Shortly after Herr Hitler arrived, another train pulled in. For the first time in four years of collaboration, Herr Hitler met Francisco Franco. The two strolled along a regal carpet, and behind them trailed dignitaries galore-Franco's brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, recently made Foreign Minister after a visit to Berlin and Rome; Foreign Minister Ribbentrop; Field Marshals Brauchitsch and Keitel; significantly, the ghost writer of Hitler's pacts, Dr. Friedrich Gaus, and many other wearers of braid and jack boots...