Word: sister-in-law
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...Willard, Bronx real estate dealer impoverished by overbearing competition with local politicians, effective witness in the Seabury investigations of New York City governmental corruption; by his own hand (poison); in a Manhattan hotel; while reading old newspaper clippings which recounted the poison-suicides of his wife and sister-in-law, whom politico-business persecutions likewise demoralized...
...infected an eye, lost its sight. One of her associates in the New York Infirmary was Marie Zakrzewska who shortly went to Boston where in 1859 she founded the New England Hospital for Women & Children. Quakers supported both. One of Dr. Blackwell's vigorous helpers was her sister-in-law, Lucy Stone, for whom was named the Lucy Stone League whose members object to using their husbands' names...
Another Whitney formally took to horse racing when plump Joan Whitney Payson registered her colors (pink-&-black) with the American Jockey Club. Other Whitney stable owners: her mother, Mrs. Payne Whitney (pink-&-black); her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney (fuchsia-&-purple); her cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney (blue-&-brown) with whom Mrs. Payson's large, handsome husband Charles rowed for Yale...
...York's Medical Center. Said he: "I am hoping to find a prominent American lady who will be Chief Cheshire Cat for the Helpers of Wonderland League which we would like to start here to interest children the two projects. In England Mrs. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, sister-in-law of Lord Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe, is Chief Cheshire...
...patrician John Galsworthy, 65. learned he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. To Dr. Irvinq Langmuir, 51, went the Nobel award for Chemistry (see p. 24). Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. By Allan Pinkerton, late...