Word: sister-in-law
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...born Alice Muriel Astor. Rumor immediately went round that the Duchess of Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister-in-law. From British sources in Vienna next day came no more definite news than that the Kents were "leaving for Yugoslavia and would visit the Windsors en route...
...Peiping, a swift kick by a Japanese sentry found its mark last week in the stomach of attractive Miss Carol Lathrop, 18 (see cut), sister-in-law of a U. S. Marine captain stationed in North China. Weeping, but not greatly injured, Miss Lathrop then got a kick in the side, and a Mrs. Jones with whom she had been out for a stroll, received a powerful kick in the behind from another Japanese sentry. Vigorous protests by U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson T. Johnson were unavailing last week as Japanese officials maintained there had been "no violence." Sniffed...
Divorced, Ethel Spencer Moseley. one-time sister-in-law of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson at whose first wedding (1916), to Lieutenant Earl Winfield Spencer, she was a bridesmaid; from George C. Moseley, Chicago broker, Yale's 1916 All-America end; in Geneva, Ill. Grounds: desertion...
...prominent place in Warren House there is a notice directed to a certain group of men in English A telling them that they may write upon almost anything, including how they enjoy visiting their sister-in-law because of the way she makes fudge, but warning them that essays on camping will be automatically thrown out. So cavalier a tone is highly commendable: it tells the new men that they have an urbane wit to deal with, and that appeals for special dispensations will not receive very indulgent consideration...
...discovered that Matteo is keeping a mistress, Pietro pants to help out. Maria Luisa has left her husband temporarily, is trying to nerve herself to get even with him by taking a lover. She dislikes Pietro, but for lack of anyone better and to spite her sister-in-law tries to seduce him. At the last minute Pietro remembers his principles and reads Maria Luisa a kindly lecture. Now, of course, she hates...