Word: daughter-in-law
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...surprise financial wiseacres who were aware that most of his holdings were in stocks knocked down by the economic depression, particularly Imperial Chemical and International Nickel. The remaining estate will be divided among his family. The new Lord Melchett will inherit half the estate. Lady Erleigh, daughter-in-law of the Marquess of Reading, Great Britain's No. 1 Jew, is to receive Lord Melchett's property facing Lake Tiberias in Palestine...
Seemingly headstrong Princess Maud had thrown away the many chances she had had to marry onto a Throne-but the Norns of Norway were busy weaving her Fate, ably assisted by foxy Edward VII. (He liked his daughter Maud as much as he disliked his daughter-in-law Mary...
...plot is typical of Lawrence: a struggle between prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the household. "She was one of those physically vulgar, clever old bodies who had got her own way all her life by buttering the weaknesses of her men-folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens...
...opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell Harriman. The Marie Harriman Gallery will probably never feel that fear of financial disaster which hangs like a permanent black pall over most of its glittering neighbors...
Laid in the Dutch colonies of the Far East, Insult's main characters are: a testy old major, his fair-haired daughter-in-law, and the dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes him, thereby making himself eligible for the death penalty-under military law. During a thunderstorm just prior to this occurrence the swart lieutenant had announced ominously: "The gods are angry tonight; they demand a sacrifice. . . . My native blood is strong within me?something is threatening." From the standpoint of audience...