Word: sister-in-law
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...Precincts. But Defendant Christie had committed acts which did not sound at all like those of an insane man. He had altered the date on a letter written to his sister-in-law in order to conceal his wife's death. He had taken money from his wife's bank, by forging her signature, sold her wedding ring and watch. When his dog had scratched up the five-year-old skull of Muriel Eady, he had dropped it one night in a bombed-out house. Summed up Justice Finnemore...
...settled down to wait. There, on the night of last Dec. 5, violence caught up with Pang again. As the story was pieced together later by Army investigators, a white U.S. Army lieutenant and three Negro G.I.s burst into the freezing mud-and-stick hut where Pang, his sister-in-law and her two children lay huddled on straw mats. They announced that they were searching for stolen U.S. goods-blankets, canteens and canteen cups. Pang placed himself before the woman and children, and, in halting English, objected to the search...
When reporters caught up with him a few hours later in the London suburb of Chalfont St. Peter, his sister-in-law at first denied that he was in her home, then the following day handed out a typewritten statement signed "A. N. May": "I myself think that I acted rightly and I believe many others think so too." May tried to justify his delivery of vital atomic information to Russian espionage agents (TIME, Jan. 5) by saying: "I was wholeheartedly concerned with securing victory over Nazi Germany and Japan . . . My object now is to obtain as soon as possible...
...said to have known everyone worth knowing and to have read everything worth reading. He was a familiar figure in the great Whig houses, at Windsor Castle and the papal court. He spoke English to his children, German to his wife, French to his sister-in-law, and Italian to his mother-in-law. But in none of these places and languages was Acton fully at home. His story, he said, was "the story of a man who started in life ... a sincere Catholic and a sincere Liberal; who therefore renounced everything in Catholicism which was not compatible with Liberty...
Stuck to the story of Johnny Nolen, the well-meaning, irresponsible husband, and his unsuccessful attempts to give up a happy-go-lucky life of gin colored fantasy, all the gaiety of the musical bogs down. Even the humorous sub-plot of Johnny's sister-in-law, Cissy, constantly spliced with Nolen tragedy, seems out of place...