Word: daughter-in-law
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...with his knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling Tan too, who had once been unable to see a chicken die, killed without feeling. His daughter-in-law, Jade, managed, by poisoning some ducks, to kill off Japanese banqueters in the city. At Ling Tan's signal, slouching and timid crowds of villagers would suddenly fall upon, murder and bury any small enough group of enemy troops...
...Johnson Brooke, a lusting, jungle-loving buck. Sir Charles used to think dinner an unnecessary and expensive meal, but he relented on his wedding night and bought his bride bread, butter and tea. Sir Charles in due course died (although his ghost still haunts the palace, says his daughter-in-law), to be succeeded by his son, the present Raja...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her daughter-in-law, and to her five grandchildren, Mrs. Roosevelt left one-tenth of her estate, to be divided in six equal parts. To St. James Church she gave $5,000. The rest of her estate she bequeathed "unto my beloved son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, forever...
...last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx who loves her in-law a little more than the legal requirements, thus producing a temporary hexagon rather than the standard eternal triangle. Without the zip of double-entendre dialogue or the oomph of a Lampy "wham...
Beauteous, auburn-haired Mrs. Randolph Churchill, the British premier's socialite daughter-in-law, took an eight-hour-a-day typing job at the Ministry of Supply...