Word: sister-in-law
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...Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Jean Piccard, sister-in-law of Stratonaut Auguste Piccard, announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...
...comic trials of Henry's long-suffering wife (able Rose McClendon of Porgy) increase, as Henry's sister-in-law becomes increasingly acidic on the subject of Henry's laziness, not a few spectators may be reminded of those unpretentious little Irish genre comedies of the Abbey Players. The parallelism goes further in the wake scene, after Henry is supposed to have gone off despondently and drowned himself. Needless to say, Henry reappears, alive and happy in a store-bought suit and brown derby, his "projeck" a success. First-week audiences seemed immensely pleased when Henry outwitted...
HARRIET-Elizabeth Jenkins-Double-day, Doran ($2). When Lewis Oman married the simple-minded Harriet for her money, he thought not only of himself but of his artist brother and his lovely sister-in-law. At first the money was enough, but later each of the group thought how much better it would be without Harriet, contrived ways to be rid of her for good...
...Lindell Ave., Hannibal, Mo. Mr. Lugena's family laundry was just that. He. his wife, three daughters, a son-in-law and a sister-in-law ran the business, lived upstairs over the plant. Two months ago, NRA compliance officers found Moss Jr., 15, driving his father's laundry truck, in violation of the blanket laundry code which prohibits youths between 14 and 16 from working more than three hours...
When he finished writing The Life of Our Lord, A History of Our Savior Jesus Christ, in 1849, Charles Dickens gave the book, not to his publishers, but to his six children. When he died, the book went to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death...