Word: sister-in-law
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...opera week for Cleveland, built up by the same two who, under Impresario Guy Golterman, directed Cleveland's first outdoor opera (for charity) last summer (TIME, Aug. 10): 26-year-old Laurence A. Higgins, and Dr. Ernst Lert, onetime Metropolitan Opera stage director (whose sister-in-law Vicki Baum was in Cleveland last week). This year they have organized a group called Laurence Productions Inc. "to present grand opera as they see it" in many cities. In Cleveland they rebuilt last year's stage, moved it closer to the grandstands. Still the largest outdoor stage ever built...
...attention was paid were chiefly the wives or relatives of well-known men. Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the Saturday Evening Post's editor, was alternate for sick Boss William S. Vare of Philadelphia, "hero" of the 1928 nomination of Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, sister-in-law of Michigan's football coach, directed the women's division of the national committee; Sarah Schuyler Butler was a New York delegate with her father Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler; even Ruth Hanna McCormick, born to politics, came as the bride of onetime Congressman Albert Gallatin Simms...
...arrived at St. Peter's he spoke brave Latin. "Omne trinum est perfectum!" II Duce, meaning "Everycombination of three is perfect." It was his third visit to St. Peter's.* First was directly after the wedding of Daughter Edda. Second was for the wedding of Edda's sister-in-law, daughter of Count Costanzo Ciano...
...demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays no part in politics. Last week this indomitable lady suddenly lashed...
...going to request that from 1932 on she pay you direct for her weekly roll as she is merely my sister-in-law...