Word: sister-in-law
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When Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was captured by the Chinese bandits she managed to hide her jewelry (valued at $50,000) in the ground. When released and returned to Peking, she drew from memory a rough map of the place. A search was organized and the jewels were finally discovered by " Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Company. He received "an extremely substantial reward...
Then there bursts into the village the radiant Guila, sister-in-law of Professor Spinosi, a fascinating woman whose metropolitan dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...
...following provisional cast has been arranged: Philipp Klapproth, W. E. Sachs '04 Ulrike Sprosser, his sister, P. G. Henderson '05 Ida and Franziska, her daughters, T. W. Knauth '07, F. H. Osgood '04 Alfred Klapproth, C. Ehlermann, Jr., '05 Ernst Kissling, his friend, F. W. Cloud '05 Fritz Bernhardy, H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07 Josephine Kruger, authoress, W. H. Chase '04 Scholler, H. Henneberger '05 Amalie Pfeiffer, his sister-in-law, O. K. Koechl '05 Friederike, her daughter, N. Edwards '05 Eugen Rumpel, G. W. Gribble '05 Grober a retired Major, H. Bowditch '05 Jean, head waiter, R. A. Miller...
...vigorous, wonderful caricatures. Thackeray stood side by side with Scott and Dickens. "Pendennis," "The Newcombes" and "Vanity Fair" were in the tall black volumes with the double columns and Thackeray's own drawings. The lecturer recalled among these the scenes of Colonel Newcombe meeting Rumum Lal at his sister-in-law's party, Sir Pit Crawley kneeling at Becky's feet, and Becky herself reading in the nursery, while the young Crawleys fought and clawed each other upon the floor...
...only young lady student at the Boston University Law School is called appropriately by the men law students their sister-in-law. - N. Y. Post...