Word: sister-in-law
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...Dave Wright was charged with murdering the sister-in-law of Major Brown...
...largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister-in-law, Edith Hale Harkness, recorded her opinion with a check for $1,000. Other contributors: Irenee du Pont of Wilmington, Del., $5,000; Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Arthur C. James, Manhattan and Newport financier and yachtsman, $2,500; Richard T. Crane, Chicago foundry potentate...
...Hughes is both a novelist and a scholar with a thirst for the sensational. (His sister-in-law, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes is Tsarina of the Cleveland Orchestra.) Musicians know him for his able works: American Composers, Music Lovers' Cyclopedia. Rabid novel readers recall such things as: The Thirteenth Commandment, Souls for Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes...
...Lady Ashbourne (sister-in-law) telegraphed to Premier Mussolini from Compiegne, France...
...with the search still unfinished. But we have glimpses of the Flecker we know best?gorgeous lines. The Don Juan of the play loves a gypsy, deserts her in a motor, is betrothed to a Prime Minister's daughter, murders him to prevent a war, kills his prospective sister-in-law, whom he has unconvincingly kissed a few pages earlier, and finally shoots his fiancee. The late Prime Minister's statue then beckons the hero to his fate. "Many Casualties" would have been a more appropriate title than "Don Juan...