Word: sister-in-law
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...note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play of the old conflict of destruction versus creation with their usual symbols, a man and a woman...
...Russia. America is observing a costly neutrality, which is dragging her into demoralization and depression. According to the Christmas sermon of a sententious ex-senator, the nation is to be seen in minature in the family, particularly in the Garrison family, consisting of the aforesaid two brothers and sister-in-law, and several lesser figures. John Garrison runs the family business, a factory producing various tools and machinery. On the income from this Robert Garrison runs his unprofitable liberal newspaper; and Sara Garrison, onetime actress and widow of Paul Garrison, World War victim, runs the old family mansion...
...Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg and of German society be invited to meet the Duchess, and would the Head of the House treat her as having the rank of Royal Highness-a rank King George VI has not yet bestowed on his American sister-in-law. Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg steered a middle course. He gave a dinner of 18 covers. Seventeen of those at the table were men. The 18th place card read "Ihre Koenig-liche Hoheit der Herzogin von Windsor" -Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Windsor...
Instead, out stepped newlyweds Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont (TIME, Sept. 20), brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Photographers' bulbs popped all about them. Sighed Mrs. du Pont: "Our honeymoon so far has been nothing but a continuous flash in the face...
...Oakland, Calif., Cleone Goad, 13, married Leonard Newlun, 30. Miss Goad's mother's husband is a brother of Mr. Newlun. Consequently, Cleone is her mother's sister-in-law, and her stepfather is her brother-in-law...