Word: sister-in-law
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...also political counselor, social manager, playmate and secret chronicler about the White House. Shrewd enough to know the advantage of his confidential position and with a sharp eye on posterity, he wrote (sometimes from quotations jotted down on his immaculate cuffs) almost daily letters to "Dear Clara," his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis F. Butt of Augusta, Ga. In these, he gave a continuous account of private life in the White House. Six years ago was published the first series of the Butt letters covering the last year of the Roosevelt Administration. The death of Chief Justice Taft opened...
...word, he could by deed. He promptly appointed Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, potent Washington lobbyist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to be director of the important Women's Division of the Republican National Committee, vice Mrs. Louise M. Dodson of Iowa, resigned. Mrs. Yost, a sister-in-law of Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed the State's Republican Executive Committee, was chosen West...
Lassman's mother revealed that, at 6 a. m. the day after her son drowned, she was telephoned by Zarakov's sister-in-law, who begged her just to "tell the newspapers that Al was a guest of the camp for a few days...
...millionaire mother, who are wasting away without apparent cause. She soon discovers that the children are anemic from undernourishment. The mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written by one familiar with nursing practice. It digresses long enough...
...eleven candidates for eight vacant vice presidencies-general of D. A. R. was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, the President's sister-in-law. She was defeated by 37 votes. The idea spread that her rejection was intended as a slap at President Hoover. The Daughters explained that it was nothing of the kind, that her defeat was primarily due to a factional fight in the California delegation...