Word: sister-in-law
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...Benet is a poet, hotly amorous of all words, ideas and images that appeal to the senses with clarity and elegance. He writes a rich historical tale in prose of the same genre as that which his austere sister-in-law, Elinor Wylie, put into her finespun web of intellectual silicon, The Venetian Glass Nephew...
...Atlantic Review (Paris). He is 53. In 1917 he fought for Britain as a second lieutenant. Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where...
Died. Mrs. Robert Mowbray Howard, 65, sister-in-law of Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.: near Guildford, England, by drowning in a pond...
Three years ago, Julie Goosen 32 of Detroit gave birth to a daughter. Julie Goosen had never married. The child was named for her mother's sister-in-law, Mrs. Irene Goosen, who acted as foster-mother after the first few days of her niece's life. Julie Goosen departed; found a man named Pryzbla, who married her. Julie Goosen Pryzbla came back and demanded her child. Foster-Mother Goosen refused. They went to court...
Married. Arthur Cheney Train, famed novelist (His Children's Children, The Needle's Eye, etc.), to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard; at Suffern...