Search Details

Word: sister-in-law (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Dave Wright was charged with murdering the sister-in-law of Major Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: Different | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wets' Finances | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Washington | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Lady Ashbourne (sister-in-law) telegraphed to Premier Mussolini from Compiegne, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Trionfante | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Flecker Fragments | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Previous | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | Next