Word: sister-in-law
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...International Harvester Co. of Chicago, divorced last month by Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick (TIME, Feb. 16); and Mrs. Florence Sittenham Davey, 38, Manhattan sculptress, pupil of Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, onetime wife of former Instructor Randall Davey of the Chicago Art Institute (Mr. McCormick is its vice president), sister-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Peru Fred Morris Dearing; in Havana...
...heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through the aid of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith. When his second wife divorced...
...white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot at Mr. Rathbone...
...Miami, Fla. Photographer Ralph Willetts of the Miami News, who has recorded the features of innumerable Florida visitors, determined to lense-catch Mr. Morgan, most elusive of celebrities. He learned, after being chased away, that at 9 o'clock one morning Mr. Morgan's sister-in-law, Mrs. Stephen Van R. Crosby, would go ashore to entrain for the North. Photographer Willetts posted himself close to the Corsair. A fellow reporter placed himself nearby in evidence and when Mr. Morgan came to the rail, shouted: "Mr. Morgan! Can't I have just a couple of minutes...
Died. Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, 77, relict of the late Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, grandmother of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; of heart disease; in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the founder with her husband of Cincinnati's Institute of Fine Arts, patroness of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...