Word: sister-in-law
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...children should consume large slabs of politics along with the eppel sas kuuche, schmierkäse and Lebanon baloney at their father's groaning dinner table. As a teenager, George chauffeured voters on Election Day, and while he was in college, he "worked the polls" for his sister-in-law's father, who was running for the York County Commission. (He won.) In 1946 George became county chairman ("I was the only one who could not talk his way out"), and in 1950, when his father retired from the state senate after a four-year term, George succeeded...
Died. Mrs. Helen Eakin Eisenhower. 49, wife of Pennsylvania State University President Milton S. Eisenhower, sister-in-law of Dwight D. Eisenhower; of complications following pneumonia; in State College...
...Communist Asbjoern Sunde, a wartime resistance hero, for transmitting Norwegian military secrets, passports and police cards to the Russian embassy. The prosecution built a seemingly airtight case: eyewitnesses testified that they had seen Sunde hand over papers to a Soviet attaché at obscure rendezvous; Sunde's sister-in-law and a friend acknowledged that he had asked them for their passports. But after two weeks of testimony, Sunde perked up and announced cockily: "I've been playing with the police, but now I'm tired. The only proof involves passports and false police identity cards...
...That Oppenheimer before his marriage was in love with one Communist woman and that he married a former Communist, and that his brother and sister-in-law were Communists. Said the Nichols letter: "It was reported that in 1943 and previously you were intimately associated with Dr. Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party in San Francisco ... It was reported that your wife was formerly the wife of Joseph Dallet, a member of the Communist Party who was killed in Spain in 1937 ... It was further reported that during the period of her association with Joseph Dallet, your wife...
Democratic King. Louis was 18 when Madame de Beauvais. one of his mother's ladies in waiting, waylaid him as he was coming from his bath, and seduced him. After that, Louis was insatiable. According to his sister-in-law, "all women, peasants, chambermaids, servants' daughters, women of quality" had only to pretend they loved him to be received in the royal bed. His Queen. Marie Therese, had to compete with a succession of mistresses and hordes of passing amourettes until she died. Six months later. Louis' mistress, Madame de Maintenon. became his wife...