Word: sister-in-law
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Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston...
...played with the Davis orchestra in the early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
Elizabeth Blackwell, a blue-eyed blonde, was a sister-in-law of Lucy Stone, the famed 19th-Century feminist. In 1847, after trying in vain to enter eleven medical schools, she was admitted to Geneva Medical College, at Geneva, N. Y. (now Syracuse University Medical School). At Geneva, the entire student body had demanded her admission. A Boston medical journal spoke of her with arch masculinity as "a pretty little specimen of the feminine gender . . . [who] comes into the class with great composure, takes off her bonnet . . . exposing a fine phrenology." In due time Elizabeth graduated, became the first woman...
...Kenneth White, based on a novel by R. E. Spencer, produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) relates the dreadful events in "the upstairs sitting room of the Garvis home," a ponderous, gloomy Victorian chamber. Here three weird maiden sisters -one of them an unspeakable witch in a bathrobe-live in apparently acute sex frustration with their widowed, musical sister-in-law and her daughter. Finally the last of the weirds, afraid of becoming more so, decides to burn the house down...
...deep-bitten protestant is a rebel in any language. America has seen many such: among the still memorable ones, Rev. John Wheelwright who, with his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for feeling good;* and Rev. Henry Ward Called Antinomianism by Puritan divines...