Word: sister-in-law
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Daughter Emily was thin, graceful, with a wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
...best chance of returning to Italy had nothing to do with the Italian Fascists. She was Princess Marie-José, daughter of the late King Albert of the Belgians and wife of Italy's Crown Prince Umberto. She lived quietly, with her children and her sedate sister-in-law, Countess Calvi di Bergolo, waiting to see if Italy would be safe for monarchy...
...delegate, abruptly interrupting his own paper on the Organization and Administration of Rural Education, "but I haven't been able to do what my people back home want me to do. They sent me up here to see Fala, and to give Fala the greetings of my sister-in-law's Scotty, Bonny Hooper." Mrs. Roosevelt left the room, reappeared. Fifteen minutes later Fala entered, got a tremendous hand...
Tone's exactress sister-in-law (Binnie Barnes) plays the camp circuit, drops in for lunch. Tone's father (Henry Stephenson) hasn't time to finish dessert before he's due for Home Guard drill...
...pecked husband, domineering wife, spinster sister-in-law, and haughty cook all enter the mix-up. Though some of the scenes where the maid, after finishing three bottles of Scotch, takes the baby out for a walk and makes long distance calls to California are as funny as the best comedies, "Three's A Family" is not always up to par. It is good in spots and barely gets by the rest of the time...