Word: sister-in-law
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...this gay crew was Edda's sister-in-law, lovely, slender Countess Maria Magistrati. Maria had a figure to dream of, even if her taste in brocades was atrocious. True, she had thrown herself away on the obscure Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Berlin, but her cavaliers were many, her conquests for the union of Naziism and Fascism pleasantly won. Over-dieting finally killed...
...self-assured was Helen Matoff, an only child, who felt a little sad about leaving England. She said that her husband of one year, Sergeant Nick Matoff, was already addicted to tea. They had first met in church, Helen said, which led her new sister-in-law of Waterbury, Conn., to remark: "We're very pleased about Nick's going to church...
...return. The homecoming was un officially scheduled for August, when the royal family will be rusticating in Scotland's Balmoral Castle. This arrangement will avoid any embarrassing meetings between the Duchess of Windsor and Queens Mary and Elizabeth, who do not approve of their daughter-in-law and sister-in-law...
Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
They fought over Austin and Emily. After Emily's death they fought 'over her poetry. When her poetry was published they fought over her letters. When her letters were at last published they fought over her biography. When Lavinia and her sister-in-law died, the fight was carried on by their supporters...