Word: sister-in-law
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...born, taking his models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect model, now glowers jealously over every younger model that 80-year-old Sculptor Maillol brings...
...suspicions had been aroused by the sight of Florrie Maybrick soaking flypapers in water. The flypapers contained arsenic. Through the servants' quarters crept the horrified conviction that Florrie was poisoning her husband. In the parlor, Brothers Michael and Edwin whispered together, looked askance at the sister-in-law they had never accepted...
Married. George Frederick Schrafft, 22, candy heir, speedboat racer; and Susan Stone Stephenson, sister-in-law of Victor Mature; in Manhattan...
...cowardly, deceitful, heartbroken old man. Gregor's steady mother expires in a moving death scene; his unloved wife, sick with sorrow over Gregor's infidelity, dies of an abortion; his brother Piotra is shot in cold blood by his Red cousin Mishka; his loose sister-in-law Daria, eaten by venereal disease, drowns herself in the Don; his sister Dunia marries Mishka, who becomes one of those insufferably coldhearted bullies who helped keep together-and poison-the post-revolutionary regime...
...Glasgow protested that Hess brought Glasgow so much publicity that his presence there might well bring on an air raid. > In Rio de Janeiro a Swiss druggist named Rudolf Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess's toenails were...