Word: sister-in-law
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Died. Mrs. Waldo Percy Goff, sister-in-law of John W. Davis, onetime U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; in Manhattan, of paralysis, after a year's illness...
...traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...
Recently he came to youth, did busts of Miss Barbara Whitney, and of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. Versatility of technique is a characteristic of Davidson. He has taken what he wants from the art of other lands, mellowed a style...
...crackle of castanets and the present vogue in Spanish shawls are faced with fearful disappointment. The tragedy of the play is quite unrelieved; it is almost Russian. The plot depicts the domestic chaos consequent upon the return from the wars of Fidel and his attempted seduction of his sister-in-law. His brother, her husband, finally slips a knife into Fidel's left ventricle. The acting is inadequate despite the presence of the more or less heralded Nance O'Neil. The single satisfactory feature is the farmhouse setting...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "My sister-in-law, Miss Lucy Aldrich, who was captured by bandits at Shantung, China, several weeks ago, arrived at the Golden Gate...