Word: sister-in-law
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...stories are simple, sometimes only a few paragraphs of cadenced prose. Their taste is bitterer than that of her novels. An Unwritten Novel, with its anguished account of a nervous, twitching, staring woman visiting her plump, patronizing sister-in-law, whose children stop eating to watch her tremors, is a harsh story for anyone to have written, incredibly harsh for Virginia Woolf. More characteristic is the mood of The Lady in the Looking-Glass, with its picture of a house in mid summer: "The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling...
This statement amounted to a direct attack upon Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's policy toward China's Communist Army, a demand that the U.S. supply the Communists as well as Chungking's nationalist forces. In Chungking, no one but the Generalissimo's revered sister-in-law would have dared to raise China's most explosive problem in such a fashion, and even she must have had some pressing urge...
Cataleptic Challenge. Churchill's first tries were with watercolor. One Sunday morning his restless extrovert eye fell on his sister-in-law, Lady Gwendeline, sketching in a garden. He seized on a painting kit belonging to the children of the house and took his first plunge. He changed to oils the next day, as soon as he could get to a supply shop. Like most amateurs, and very like himself, he at once bought a lot of magnificent apparatus, including portable easels for traveling...
...begins in a squalid Pennsylvania mining town. Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino), trapped as the wife of a grimy animal who sleeps in his long underwear, schemes to escape from it all with her pretty, teen-age sister-in-law Katherine (Joan Leslie). The arrival of a team of vaudeville hoofers, Runkel (Jack Carson) & Collins (Dennis Morgan), provides the opportunity. When the hoofers entrain for the next stop, the girls are members of the party-Katherine as Runkel's wife and Helen as boss...
Chiang Kaishek, bearing the brunt of China's immense lacks and burdens, did not have to pay immediate attention to his revered sister-in-law's demands for internal reform. But her statement was also a reminder to the Western world that much more than military strategy is now involved in China...