Word: sister-in-law
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...that Mrs. Gershwin detected any seeds of musical talent in her grubby young son. Se bought the piano because her sister-in-law had one. There it stood, big and shiny; it had cost a lot of money, and no one in the Gershwin family-not even Ira, the oldest, who was certainly a smart boy- could make music on it. George would have to learn. For some time the neighbors suffered; then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told...
...Genius of the Comic Strip, which thus presided at his departure last week, was responsible for Gershwin's taking up music in the first place. In 1911, his mother's sister-in-law bought a piano. Because the promptings of that Genius told his mother to keep up with the Joneses, she bought one also. The thing had cost a lot and it was no good unless somebody learned to play it. So the Gershwin family hired a teacher for George, then 13. Came the day when he played for Max Rosen, famed violinist. Mr. Rosen patted him kindly...
...plot concerns the troubles of the Halpin family. Coiny Halpin has sworn to kill Christie Barrett because Barrett's father kill his brother years ago; Ellen Halpin, his sister-in-law, is afraid her daughter wants to marry Christie--afraid not because of factional hate, but because Christie was her own childhood sweetheart. After many complications provided by Padna Collins, an Irish miser everything ends happily. Ellen marries Christie, Norah explains that she had long ago decided to become a nun, Corny Shakes hands with Christie, and the whole lot sails for Australia leaving Padna behind alone...
...robbers actually captured 24 foreigners; but one, Miss Lucy C. Aldrich, sister-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., grew tired on the way to the mountain stronghold, lagged behind, eventually lagged so far behind that she was able to escape. By virtue of an active mind and a good memory, she was able to recover her jewelry, valued at $50,000, which she had buried in the ground immediately after the train had jumped the rails. Subsequently she drew a map showing the place where the treasure lay hid. "Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Co. was despatched...
Trouble. The Army has advanced with remarkably little internal friction. It has not, however, been easy to conduct the American campaign from the London headquarters. In 1896, Bramwell Booth's brother, Ballington, and his sister-in-law, Maud Ballington Booth, held sway on this Continent. They seceded, forming the Volunteers of America. Most of the Army officers, however, remained loyal to the London Commander-in-Chief, who promptly appointed his sister Evangeline to the difficult American command. Now Evangeline is a very great woman. She began her career by peddling copies of the War Cry and has done...